Nafeez Ahmed has written an article titled: How The CIA Made Google It is a deep dive into many of the players surrounding the creation of Google, and how "The Highlands Forum" shapes the direction of technology and information gathering. That there are a lot of ties between Google and the intelligence community is kind of assumed these days, but rumors of deep connections have been just that, rumors. Nafeez's research pulls together a lot data to paint a pretty dismal future for freedom on the internet.
> Thuraisingham goes on in her article to reiterate that this joint CIA-NSA >> program partly funded Sergey Brin to develop the core of Google, through a >> grant to Stanford managed by Brin's supervisor Prof. Jeffrey D. Ullman: > > >> "In fact, the Google founder Mr. Sergey Brin was partly funded by this >> program while he was a PhD student at Stanford. He together with his >> advisor Prof. Jeffrey Ullman and my colleague at MITRE, Dr. Chris Clifton >> [Mitre's chief scientist in IT], developed the Query Flocks System which >> produced solutions for mining large amounts of data stored in databases. I >> remember visiting Stanford with Dr. Rick Steinheiser from the Intelligence >> Community and Mr. Brin would rush in on roller blades, give his >> presentation and rush out. In fact the last time we met in September 1998, >> Mr. Brin demonstrated to us his search engine which became Google soon >> after." > > >> Brin and Page officially incorporated Google as a company in September >> 1998, the very month they last reported to Thuraisingham and Steinheiser. >> 'Query Flocks' was also part of Google's patented 'PageRank' search system, >> which Brin developed at Stanford under the CIA-NSA-MDDS programme, as well >> as with funding from the NSF, IBM and Hitachi. That year, MITRE's Dr. Chris >> Clifton, who worked under Thuraisingham to develop the 'Query Flocks' >> system, co-authored a paper with Brin's superviser, Prof. Ullman, and the >> CIA's Rick Steinheiser. Titled 'Knowledge Discovery in Text,' the paper was >> presented at an academic conference. > > http://www.mintpressnews.com/cia-made-google/201521/?desktop-version=on Original article: https://medium.com/@NafeezAhmed/how-the-cia-made-google-e836451a959e
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