John O. Brennan Career highlights What were his career highlights? Brennan began his CIA career as an analyst and spent 25 years with the agency. What is notable about his time at the CIA? He was a daily intelligence briefer for President Bill Clinton. What did he do under President Bush? He was director of the newly created Terrorist Threat Integration Center from 2003 to 2004, What was his job in this position? an office that sifted through and compiled information for President Bush's daily top secret intelligence briefings and employed the services of analysts What else has he done in his career? One of the controversies in his career involves the distribution of intelligence to the Bush White House that helped lead to an "Orange Terror Alert",
What intelligence that was distributed?
What intelligence was distributed to the Bush White House by John O. Brennan?
Brennan began his CIA career as an analyst and spent 25 years with the agency. He was a daily intelligence briefer for President Bill Clinton. In 1996, he was CIA station chief in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia when the Khobar Towers bombing killed 19 U.S. servicemen. In 1999, he was appointed chief of staff to George Tenet, then-Director of the CIA. Brennan became deputy executive director of the CIA in March 2001. He was director of the newly created Terrorist Threat Integration Center from 2003 to 2004, an office that sifted through and compiled information for President Bush's daily top secret intelligence briefings and employed the services of analysts from a dozen U.S. agencies and entities. One of the controversies in his career involves the distribution of intelligence to the Bush White House that helped lead to an "Orange Terror Alert", in late 2003. The intelligence, which purported to list terror targets, was highly controversial within the CIA and was later discredited. An Obama administration official does not dispute that Brennan distributed the intelligence during the Bush era but said Brennan passed it along because that was his job. His last post within the Intelligence Community was as director of the National Counterterrorism Center in 2004 and 2005, which incorporated information on terrorist activities across U.S. agencies.  Brennan then left government service for a few years, becoming Chairman of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) and the CEO of The Analysis Corporation (TAC). He continued to lead TAC after its acquisition by Global Strategies Group in 2007 and its growth as the Global Intelligence Solutions division of Global's North American technology business GTEC, before returning to government service with the Obama administration as Homeland Security Advisor on January 20, 2009.  On January 7, 2013, Brennan was nominated by President Barack Obama to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency.  In September 2017, Brennan was named a Distinguished Non-Resident Scholar at The University of Texas at Austin, where he also acts as a Senior Advisor to the University's Intelligence Studies Project. CANNOTANSWER
The intelligence, which purported to list terror targets, was highly controversial within the CIA and was later discredited.
MoneyBee was a distributed computing project in the fields of economics, finance and stock markets, that generated stock forecasts by application of artificial intelligence with the aid of artificial neural networks. MoneyBee acted as a screensaver. The project was run by i42 Informationsmanagement GmbH, a consulting private company from Mannheim, Germany.  The project was suspended with a standing invitation for any interested in joining the MoneyBee2 project, but MoneyBee2 seems to have been abandoned in early 2010.

History
The idea was first conceived in an economics thesis on stock forecasts with the aid of artificial neural networks at the University of Heidelberg. The MoneyBee system was then developed by i42 GmbH, Mannheim, who added some innovative features to the original idea.

Since starting in September 2000, many users downloaded the German version. By 2001, about 12,000 users were generating 0.1 Teraflops of computing capacity – comparable to an average university mainframe computer at the time.

See also
 List of distributed computing projects

References

External links
 Moneybee - an example of distributed computing
 MoneyBee: A new product to predict stock market developments using artificial intelligence and increased calculation capacitiy
 Innovative Kooperation zwischen MoneyBee und Zeitungssuchdienst Paperball

Distributed computing projects
Artificial neural networks
Stock market In artificial intelligence, the distributed multi-agent reasoning system (dMARS) was a platform for intelligent software agents developed at the AAII that makes uses of the belief–desire–intention software model (BDI). The design for dMARS was an extension of the intelligent agent cognitive architecture developed at SRI International called procedural reasoning system (PRS). The most recent incarnation of this framework is the JACK Intelligent Agents platform.

Overview
dMARS was an agent-oriented development and implementation environment written in C++ for building complex, distributed, time-critical systems.

See also
 Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute
 Intelligent agent
 JACK Intelligent Agents
 AgentSpeak

References
 d'Inverno, M., Luck, M., Georgeff, M., Kinny, D. and Wooldridge, M. (2004) "The dMARS Architecture: A Specification of the Distributed Multi-Agent Reasoning System". Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. pp. 5–53.
 Mark d'Inverno, David Kinny, Michael Luck, and Michael Wooldridge. "A Formal Specification of dMARS". In Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages, ATAL'97 appears in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, volume 1365, pages 155–76, 1997.
 Michael Peter Georgeff, Anand S. Rao, "A profile of the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute," IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 89–92, December 1996.

External links
 dMARS Product Brief on the AAII website via the Internet Archive

Agent-based software
Multi-agent systems
SRI International software LIFER/LADDER was one of the first database natural language processing systems. It was designed as a natural language interface to a database of information about US Navy ships. This system, as described in a paper by Hendrix (1978), used a semantic grammar to parse questions and query a distributed database. 

The LIFER/LADDER system could only support simple one-table queries or multiple table queries with easy join conditions.

Some examples of queries it could accept:
What are the length, width, and draft of the Kitty Hawk?
When will Reeves achieve readiness rating C2?
What is the nearest ship to Naples with a doctor on board?
What ships are carrying cargo for the United States?
Where are they going?
Print the American cruisers’ current positions and states of readiness?

References

History of artificial intelligence
United States Navy