A book by Jesus….
Ah, you might think I’m talking about Jesus Christ, but this post isn’t about him at all! This particular Jesus I’m referring to is actually a person by the name of Jesus Mena, who has authored the book: “Investigative Data Mining for Security and Criminal Detection“, published by Butterworth-Heinemann, 2003. I’m currently reading the first chapter of this book and it provides a very fascinating look at how data mining technologies such as neural networks, decision trees, and natural language processing, can be used to mine heaps of data for information on criminal or terrorist behaviour. My particular area of research focuses how artificial intelligent technologies such as decision trees, artificial neural networks, or fuzzy systems, can be used to data mine e-mail traffic for signs of possible criminal or terrorist behaviour. Given that this book covers the area that I’m researching, its definitely helping me get some good ideas about how to deal with this topic.
If you’re also interested in the area of data mining and homeland security, you might want to check out the other book authored by Jesus Mena, called “Homeland Security Techniques and Technologies“, published by Charles River Media (publisher now swallowed up by Delmar Thomson Learning), 2004. I’ve currently got this book on order, so I can’t wait to get my hands on it…. 
Sounds like good book to read!
Comment by Anonymous — August 30, 2005 @ 8:36 am