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Early Days

In the late 1990s, I became involved in an experiment that included the deployment of an ML pipeline to process what at the time was considered to be a tremendous volume of time-stamped messages. The goal of this international effort, initiated by DARPA for the United States and finished by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, was to demonstrate the feasibility of using ML algorithms to perform automated detection and location of nuclear events (distinguishing them from natural and non-nuclear man-made events). The experiment ultimately led to key insights into the methods of automated multi-sensor data fusion and anomaly detection.