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Welcome and Overview of Sessions, April 26
Welcome and Overview of Sessions, April 26
Pages 5-10
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He has also studied hidden Markov models, which are important in such diverse fields as speech recognition and molecular biology from the point of view of how well the method of maximum likelihood performs. Recently he has become involved in developing empirical statistical models for genomic sequences.
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So, we decided to try to do something about the situation, and with the generous assistance of the DOE, the National Science Foundation, National Security Agency, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Office of Naval Research and DARPA and Microsoft we have convened this workshop.
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Mathematics, operations research statistics and computer science provide the fundamental tools for extracting relevant information from the flood of data of all types that our senses receive. We want to know about people moving, money moving, materials moving and so on.
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The synergy achieved by bringing these different groups of researchers together is also one of our goals. We have been fortunate that a collection of distinguished speakers with expertise in each of these areas agreed to give expository talks, that a number of distinguished mathematical scientists not working in these areas have agreed to act as discussants, and that a number of distinguished officers of the federal agencies concerned with homeland security have agreed to chair these sessions.
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I will now turn to the chair of the first session, Jim S chat z .
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welcomect the participants to the workshop anct spoke about how important it is for both the mathematics community anct the security community to uncterstanct anct appreciate the role that the mathematical sciences play in security. Mathematics, operations research, statistics, anct computer science provide the fundamental tools for extracting relevant information from the flood of data of all types that our senses receive.
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