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DHS, Google sponsor $1.5M contest for airport scanner algorithm

Jun. 22, 2017 12:04 PM ETAlphabet Inc. (GOOG) StockGOOG, GOOGLBy: Brandy Betz, SA News Editor8 Comments
  • The Department of Homeland Security announces a $1.5M contest in conjunction with Google (GOOG, GOOGL) for better screening algorithms that can identify concealed items in airport body scanners.
  • The government provides the financial backing for the contest while Google provides the platform via its recently required Kaggle data science website.
  • Data scientists can use any algorithm-building technique desired, but neural networking might dominate the entries due to its ability to scan vast amounts of data and learn from the results. 
  • The government hopes the winning algorithm will improve the detection abilities while improving efficiency of human workers at the airport checkpoints.  

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