Tuesday 15 July 2008

Dante Gabriel Rossetti A Vision of Fiammetta painting

Dante Gabriel Rossetti A Vision of Fiammetta painting
Peter Paul Rubens The Crucified Christ painting

It seems like a scene from science fiction: machines able to detect suspicious sounds or even sudden changes in visual patterns and alert authorities. It's real, though, and in place for the Athens Olympics...
It seems like a scene from science fiction: machines able to detect suspicious sounds or even sudden changes in visual patterns and alert authorities. It's real, though, and in place for the Athens Olympics.Recent leaps in technology have led to highly sophisticated software that can turn street surveillance cameras into a security guard with intelligence-gathering skills."It is a very vast network and it is the first time that is being operated in such scale on an international level," Greek police spokesman Col Lefteris Ikonomou told AP.The system - developed by a consortium led by San Diego-based Science Applications International Corp., or SAIC - cost about $312 million and took up a sizable chunk of Athens' record security budget of more than $1.5 billion

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