學者素描》陳炘鈞 MIS界的台灣之光 (For full article, click here)

跨洋合作》文字探勘計畫 嗅出商業情報 (For full article, click here)

udn.com, Jul 27th, 2008

"National Dragnet Is a Click Away." With Coplink, police investigators can pinpoint suspects by searching on scraps of information... They can find hidden relationships among suspects and instantly map links among people, places and events. (For full article, click here (pdf ))

Washington Post, Mar 6th, 2008

"Researchers are using Web spiders to track down terrorists online." The first version of our spider could only collect 10 to 15 percent of the content. Now we can get about 85 to 95 percent. (For full article, click here (pdf ))

PC Magazine, Feb 27th, 2008

"American Project Promises to Hunt Terrorist on the Internet." In a first reading, the name may even cause terror: Dark Web Project. (For full article, click here (html - portuguese) or click here (pdf - translated))

O Globo Online, December 12th, 2007

"New Tool Automates Analysis of Jihad Sites." (For full article click here (html))

(Associated Press) Philadelphia Inquirer, November 18th, 2007

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World Journal, November 12th, 2007

"Arizona Team’s Tool Could Help Law Enforcement Link Online Postings and Track Down Terrorists." (For full article click here (pdf))

(Associated Press) International Herald Tribune, November 12th, 2007

"Dark Web Tool Seeks Online Terrorists." (For full article click here (pdf))

(Associated Press) Business Week, November 11th, 2007

"Project Seeks to Track Terror Web Posts."

(Associated Press) Forbes, November 11th, 2007

"Project Seeks to Track Terror Web Posts."

(Associated Press) Chicago Tribune, November 11th, 2007

"Project Seeks to Track Terror Web Posts." (For full article click here (pdf))

(Associated Press) Miami Herald, November 11th, 2007

"Project Seeks to Track Terror Web Posts." (For full article click here (pdf))

(Associated Press) Newsweek, November 11th, 2007

"Project Seeks to Track Terror Web Posts." (For full article click here (pdf))

(Associated Press) ABC News, November 11th, 2007

"Project Seeks to Track Terror Web Posts." (For full article click here pdf))

(Associated Press) Washington Post, November 11th, 2007

"Researchers Say Tool Could Help Trace Online Posts to Terrorists." (For full article click here (pdf))

(Associated Press) USA Today, November 11th, 2007

"Project Seeks to Track Terror Web Posts." "Researchers at the University of Arizona are developing a tool that uses these clues to automate the analysis of online jihadism. The Dark Web project aims to scour Web sites, forums and chat rooms to find the Internet's most prolific and influential jihadists and learn how they reel in adherents."
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Associated Press, November 11th, 2007

"University of Arizona Tool Could Help Fight Terrorism." "You might think all terrorism research is done by the big guys in Washington D.C., but researchers at the University of Arizona in Tucson have their eyes on the Dark Web. Dr. Hsinchun Chen is the director of The Artificial Intelligence Lab at U of A, says members of radical terrorist groups are using the web as a mechanism to recruit people, train them and possibly even to conduct actual terrorist operations."
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ABC:15.com, KNXV-TV, November 5th, 2007

Jane Linder Recognized Coplink in her Book "Spiral Up". "Maybe the reason so many well-intentioned management initiatives fall short is because typical "best practice" methods only help managers avoid failure, rather than produce genuinely spectacular results. Jane Linder proposes a new way of managing. Jane Linder dedicated a chapter to the success of Coplink in her new book Spiral Up".
(For full the chapter click here (pdf))

Spiral Up, October 31st, 2007

Germany in the Crosshairs of Terrorism - Tracking Down Extremists. "Osama Bin Laden is back. He is calling on insurgents in Iraq to concentrate their efforts against America. That call runs, as usual, on Al Jazeera, and soon on web sites on the Internet - worldwide - that is clear. A unique project in America tracks down those secret communications." In a documentary about German residents turned Islamists turned extremists, the Dark Web project was featured in developing tools against information overload.
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Second German Television (ZDF), October 23nd, 2007

Dark Web Project Takes on Cyber-Terrorism, "In recent years, the anonymous nature of the Web has turned it into a boomtown for all sorts of radicalized hate."
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Fox News, October 12th, 2007

UA Effort Sifting Web for Terror-Threat Data, "Terrorists use the Web as a virtual university of how-to videos for making bombs, enticing recruits and plotting attacks - but UA researchers are zeroing in on them." (For full article click here (html) or here (pdf))

Arizona Daily Star, September 24th, 2007

UA Researchers Targeting Terrorists Over the Web, "Web researchers at the University of Arizona are busy these days tracking down potential terrorist-led Web Sites and following their every move."
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Associated Press, September 24th, 2007

Mathematicians Work to Help Track Terrorist Activity, "Researchers in math, computer science and criminology met this week to discuss the ways math could be used to track terrorist activity."
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National Public Radio, September 14th, 2007

Scientists Use the "Dark Web" to Snag Extremists and Terrorists Online." Terrorists and extremists have set up shop on the Internet, using it to recruit new members, spread propaganda and plan attacks across the world. The size and scope of these dark corners of the Web are vast and disturbing. But in a non-descript building in Tucson, a team of computational scientists are using the cutting-edge technology and novel new approaches to track their moves online, providing an invaluable tool in the global war on terror."
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National Science Foundation, September 10th, 2007

The Dark Web, "The internet's ability to leap borders, thwart censorship and preserve anonymity is making it a crucial tool in recruiting jihadists."
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The Bulletin Australia, August 2007

Inside the Dark Web of Terrorism, "Terrorist groups can't hide on the Web. A team of university researchers have quietly collected the largest digital library of information on terrorist groups. A look inside the part of the Web most of us never see."
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Digital Journal, July 16th, 2007

How Terrorists Use the Internet, "The internet is very useful for terrorists. Hsinchun Chen says he can get inside the websites of terrorists and follow conversations. He describes recruitment methods, and the psychology employed. He says the internet has given terrorists a global reach and influence."
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The Science Show, March 31st 2007

Dark Side of the Web, "It seems like the internet can do almost anything. You can read the news, go shopping, help the kids with homework- or recruit terrorists. In a KGUN 9 On Your Side investigation, Craig Smith shows us a local project that's mapping the dark side of the web."
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KGUN 9 News, Febuary 6th 2007

Digital Fingerprints, "Hsinchun Chen, a researcher in information systems at the University of Arizona in Tucson, realized that such analysis could be applied to a quite different problem. "It could be used to track anyone who is trying to hide their identity on the Web," Chen says. "They'll leave a trace."
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Science News, January 13th 2007

Mining The Dark Web, "MIS department develops terrorism informatics" (For full article, click here (pdf))."

Eller PROGRESS , Fall 2006

Global Jihad Online, "Jihadi terrorist and their followers have taken to the internet like freshmen to Facebook.  But the authorities haven't noticed that the front line is now online."
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WIRED Magazine, December 2006

U of A Honing Online Intelligence, "Hsinchun Chen goes where terrorists gather. He monitors what they say and, particularly, how they say it. He tracks who they are talking to, and whether they are spreading propaganda or providing training. "They're hiding," Chen said. "You need to dig them out."
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East Valley Tribune, September 17th, 2006

UA Scientists Probe 'Dark Web' to Uncover Potential Terrorist Threats, "For the past four years, scientists at the University of Arizona have been aiding U.S. government intelligence agencies in their efforts to make sense of the terrorist-related information that is floating around on the Web. As part of the Dark Web project, University of Arizona Eller College of Management professor Dr. Hsinchun Chen and his colleagues have worked out formulas and algorithms for measuring social interactions of terrorists online, and the degree of hatred and violence that is expressed in their communications. Dark Web is now the largest computer database on terrorist Web sites and chat forums."
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KVOA News 4 Tucson, September 12th 2006

Trolling for terrorists, "If the face of terrorism has changed dramatically in the past five years, so too has the profile of those who combat it. Working from a windowless room accessed after passing through a labyrinth of security systems at the University of Arizona, Hsinchun Chen typifies the new breed."
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Toronto Star, September 8th 2006

ScienCentral Video News features the Dark Web Project, "The Internet's popularity for connecting people has a dark side. It's also become a major planning tool for terrorists. As this ScienCentral News video explains, one computer scientist is using artificial intelligence to "connect the dots" between terrorist groups." (For full article, click here (html), or click here (pdf)).

ScienCentral, August 8th 2006

UA's 'Dark Web' Team Combing Internet to Track Terrorism, "University of Arizona computer scientists say they have quietly assembled the world's largest digital library of intelligence on extremist and terrorist organizations culled from the Web."
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The Arizona Republic, July 28th 2006, pg A1 & A13

Dark Web Project featured in Discover Magazine cover article "The Future of Terrorism", "At the end of a long hallway in a gray and cavernous block at the University of Arizona in Tucson sits a closet-size windowless room secured by complex access codes and sealed with bulletproof glass. The room is chilled to a steady 60 degrees and filled with rack-mounted monitors, blinking red lights, a squat supercomputer, and three "spidering machines" that crawl through the Internet, quietly spooling data from the shadowy digital realm inhabited by terrorists, hackers, and cybercriminals. Welcome to the Dark Web. These machines store Web data from roughly 1,500 terrorists and extremists organizations, including 500 groups with roots in the Middle East, explain University of Arizona computer scientist Hsinchun Chen, who designed this digital sleuthing tool.  Accessible only to those who pass fingerprinting and extensive background checks, the Dark Web Project constitutes the largest collection of online terrorist data on the planet and maybe the key to cracking future plots.  It is, literally and metaphorically, a portal to the underworld."
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Discover Magazine, July 2006, pg 32-42, 76

Extremist Social Movement Groups And Their Online Digital Libraries,
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Information Outlook, June 2006, pg 57-65

L.A. to deploy crime-analysis software,
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FCW.com, April 28th 2006

Dr. Chen was ranked #1 in publication productivity in Digital Library in an Information Processing & Management study (2005)
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Dr. Chen was ranked #8 in publication productivity in MIS in Communications of the Association for Information Systems study (2005) (For full article, click here)

The Terrorism Knowledge Discovery Project has its origins in the technology behind COPLINK, a collaboration-based crime-fighting tool invented in the Artificial Intelligence Lab. In expanding to counterterrorism, AI Lab researchers are constructing a Terrorist Network Portal to visually map terrorist networks, and a multi-lingual Dark Web portal to create access to the "Dark Web" - the alternate side of the Web used by terrorists to spread their ideas.
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Eller PROGRESS ,Fall 2004

2 UA professors get cash awards, "management information systems professor Hsinchun Chen were honored by the UA with the inaugural Technology Innovation Awards at a ceremony at the UA Student Union Memorial Center. The awards, which come with a $10,000 cash prize, recognize UA faculty members who have excelled in moving technology out of the laboratory and into the marketplace. They are to be given annually."
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Arizona Daily Star,September 16, 2004

Artificial Intelligence lab works to hunt terrorists, cure cancer (For full article, click here (pdf) or here (html)

Arizona Daily Wildcat, September 15, 2004 , October, 2003

Longitudinal Patent Analysis for Nanoscale Science and Engineering: Country, Institution and Technology Field, " Nanoscale science and engineering (NSE) and related areas have seen rapid growth in recent years. We experimented with several analysis and visualization techniques on NSE-related United States patent documents to support various knowledge tasks. This paper presents results on the basic analysis of nanotechnology patents between 1976 and 2002, content map analysis and citation network analysis."

National Science Council (NSC, Taiwan), October, 2003

LAPD Hopes to Add High-Tech Partner to Force, "COPLINK is part of a new science of data-mining algorithms that allows a computer to make high-speed connections that would take a human weeks. More than 100 agencies nationwide use COPLINK. The latest to sign up is the San Diego Police Department, joining Boston, Minneapolis, Phoenix, all the police agencies in Alaska, and the first agency, the Tucson Police Department... The systems, [LAPD Assistant Chief] Gascon said, provide a kind of instant institutional memory, like a veteran detective who never forgets. Gascon said high-tech law enforcement tools such as COPLINK are the wave of the future...COPLINK was born in a university lecture room, the fortuitous result of a police office who went back to college..." (For full article, see HTML Version here)

Los Angeles Times, January 2, 2004

"Cops Could Hit the Links Soon: New Search Engine Would Catalog, Interpret Data for Investigations," (For full article, see HTML Version here)

Los Angeles Daily News, December 6, 2003.

"Software Joins Cops on the Beat," COPLINK program links databases, speeds police investigations in the state of Alaska, (For full article, see HTML Version here)

Anchorage Daily News, November 23, 2003.

Webber Seavey Award for Quality in Law Enforcement, Tucson Police Department's COPLINK project (in collaboration with the University of Arizona Artificial Intelligence Lab and funded by NSF and NIJ) was named a finalist of the prestigious Webber Seavey Award for Quality in Law Enforcement (among a field of 144 nominations).The award was sponsored by the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) and Motorola. The award was announced on October 23, 2003 during the annual IACP meeting in Philadelphia. (For full article, see HTML Version here)

Motorola.com  December 3, 2003

Northeast Kansas Law Enforcement to Use Program to Sift Through Records, COPLINK is a database that stores and searches through police records ranging from traffic stops to murders, quickly generating a list of leads for police officers.

Dodge City Daily Globe  August 19, 2003

Software Helps Police Draw Crime Links, "Coplink," the program sifts through tens of millions of police records, from 911 calls to homicide investigations, to deliver a short list of potential leads in just seconds. (For full article, see HTML Version here)

The Boston Globe  July 17, 2003

‘Google’ for Cops, software helps police search for cyber clues to bust criminals (For full article, see HTML Version here)

ABC News  April 15, 2003

Crime: A Google for Cops, a computerized way for police to coordinate crime databases (For full article, see HTML Version here) -- PDF Version here)

Newsweek Magazine  March 3, 2003

In 2002, the COPLINK project received "The PTI Technology Solutions Award" in the Public Safety category for mid-size cities. The Technology Solutions Award is a national program recognizing local governments that use technology to improve service to the community, decrease costs, or increase revenues. Entries were judged in several categories including Public Safety, Environment, Energy, Telecommunications and Information Technology, and Transportation. PTI, formerly Public Technology Inc., is now known as Public Technology Institute.

Public Technology Institute   2002

"Data Miners" Americans got a glimpse of how such a system might work this fall during the Washington-sniper investigation. Two weeks into the shootings, Knowledge Computing, an Arizona company whose COPLINK system has integrated police databases. (For full article, see here)

Time Magazine Global Business Supplement  December 23, 2002

Coplink, an artificial-intelligence–driven search engine for crime characteristics, scans multiple databases for connections among names, vehicles, physical descriptions, and other aspects of a crime or criminal (For full article, see here)

PC Magazine  December 17, 2002

"A Sherlock Holmes for the Internet Age" Content in Chinese. (For full article, see here)

Life Week Magazine  November 18, 2002

"A Missing Link Most Wanted" Linking facts in the sniper case will be a big test of what Coplink can do. Just for this project, all information from Maryland, the District and Virginia and from federal databases such as the FBI's Rapidstart is being collected in a single, searchable data file. (For full article, see here)

The Washington Post  November 7, 2002

"An Electronic Cop That Plays Hunches" It is an Internet-based system called Coplink, developed at an artificial intelligence laboratory, that allows police departments to establish links quickly among their own files and to those of other departments. (For full article, see HTML Version here -- PDF Version here)

The New York Times  November 2, 2002

"Tucson Cops, local software to help in D.C. sniper probe" A computer database system that Tucson police employ in crime investigations will be used in the hunt for the Washington, D.C.-area sniper or snipers. (For full article, see here)

Tucson Citizen  October 23, 2002

"Sniper probe to get help from Tucson" A program developed by the University of Arizona will be used to try to capture the Washington, D.C., area sniper. (For full article, see here)

Arizona Daily Star  October 23, 2002

"Regional Information Sharing Project for Huntsville, Texas Law Enforcement Agencies" The city of Huntsville, TX recently granted a contract to implement COPLINK, a law enforcement records-sharing tool, in an initiative to improve Community Oriented Policing. (For full article, see here)

The Innovation Groups  www.ig.org

"Making a Digital Government" Lawrence Brandt's latest job is to get federal agencies to share technology and information. (For full article, see here)

Los Angeles Times  May 20, 2002

"KMWorld" Law enforcement is an information-intensive process, beginning with data collection at crime scenes and extending through records management and analysis of data to support crime-solving. (For full article, see here)

KMWorld  Vol 11, Issue 3, March 2002

"Super Detective" When University of Arizona professor Hsinchun Chen combined police databases for a consortium of city police agencies, a super-detective was born. (For full article, see here)

DG Online   December 2001

Key Professor: E-commerce expert Hsinchun Chen is a pioneer in the knowledge management and IT areas (For full article, see here)

Business 2.0   November 2001

National Conference on Digital Government Research Convenes in Los Angeles (For more detail, see here)

Digital Government 2001 Conference 

Coplink Shifts and Shares Information - Fast (For full article, see here)

POLICE  July 2001

Software For Data Searchers (For full article, see here)

Law Enforcement Technology  April 2001

Article related to Self Organising Maps (SOM) and Spiders - Article in Spanish

Revista Digital de InfoVis.net  April 2001

Information Sharing System "Coplink" (For full article, see here)

The POLICE CHIEF  March 2001

AI Lab's Chinese semantic retrieval system is the engine behind UDN's (United Daily New) acclaimed intelligent news search service. (For related Chinese articles, see [news1] [news2] [news3])

United Daily News (Taiwan)  February 2, 2001

"Use of COPLINK spreads, fuels company's growth"

Tucson Citizen  January 17, 2001

"Technology developed in Tucson is helping police catch criminals faster. COPLINK products let police agencies rapidly share crime information across jurisdictional lines and analyze the data..." (For full article, see here)

Arizona Daily Star  January 7, 2001, Business Section, front page

Changing the Rules of the Game. How Coplink is Helping Police Departments Match Evidence Across Boudaries of Time and Space (For full article, see here)

FCW.com  April 03, 2000

Map of the Month is based on the ET-Map created by a team led by Dr. Hsinchun Chen. National Science Foundation (For full articles, see here or here)

Mapa Mundi Magazine  February 2000

A Cybermap Atlas: Envisioning the Internet

TeleGeography,Inc 

Cartes interactives ou dynamiques (Dinamic and Interactive Maps)"Article in F