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wireless polygraph

🔗Manuel Op de Coul <manuel.op.de.coul@...>

6/24/2004 8:04:30 AM

That's no lie: wireless polygraph on the way

By Oded Hermoni

h a a r e t z 23 june 04

The American government is funding the development of new technology for a
polygraph machine that is capable of identifying whether a person is
telling the truth, without physically attaching him to the equipment. There
are also plans to develop a mat of sensors that will be used in airports to
test the answers of passengers during questioning.

The technology, developed by an Israeli high-tech company, uses external
sensors that cause minimum physical discomfort to the person being
interrogated.

The Technical Support Working Group of the American Homeland Security
authorized a grant of $750,000 earlier this week to fund the project, a
joint venture of the Israeli Atlas and the American Whizsoft. The research
and development stage is expected to be completed in 16 months with a
single prototype that will be tested.

Atlas, an Israeli R&D company operating since 1977 which specializes in the
analysis of psychophysiological phenomena and their impact, works mostly in
outsourcing functions for medical equipment for both Israeli and foreign
companies, but also for the Defense Ministry.

Atlas is joining the wave of dual-use technologies whose origins are in
medical treatment and are also being used in the development of anti-terror
equipment.

According to Gideon Miller, an adviser to Atlas in the project, what is
unique in this project is the ability to process the information in real
time and the ability of the sensors to evaluate from a distance the
condition of the person interrogated

Great, should be used whenever a politician speaks in public :-)

Manuel

🔗Dante Rosati <dante@...>

6/24/2004 9:15:25 AM

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Midwest/06/24/fireworks.shooting.ap/index.html

🔗Charles Lucy <16tone@...>

6/24/2004 2:18:45 PM

I remember reading somewhere that lie detection could be achieved by analysis of voice stress.
Could this mean that the microtonalists really may hold the "keys" to this technology with our knowledge of pitch and timbre analyses;-)

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