Google is Skynet :) or How The CIA Made Google

[Steve Pirk <pirkster () gmail com>]

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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