The fine people who work in law enforcement and especially those who strive to protect our children from pedophiles deserve our thanks and so much more. The men and women who work in the elite Internet Crimes against Children divisions (known as ICAC) have the sad task of having to review the actual photos and videos taken of child victims in their pursuit of those evil people who prey on innocent children.
Larry Magid has written a fascinating news story on how Google's technology is helping this important work become more efficient by using computers to find linkages between images from child pornography (a logo, a sign) and finding other images on the Internet to link the two. In this way, ICAC officers can speed up their ability to find the perpetrators and get them away from our children.
I really want to thank the engineers at Google who worked on this project. What a wonderful way for technology to really fix something terrible and broken in our world!
Original posting date: Monday, April 14, 2008 | 9:00 AM |