| Plenary IV Title: "International Fusion: Changes and Approaches" Speaker: Frank White, Jr. (Vitae) Director, Program Development, US Navy SPAWAR Systems Center, San Diego, CA, USA
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ABSTRACT
In the current Information age, the potential for overwhelming availability of data largely without meaning has become a reality. Everywhere individuals and organizations are drowning in data and information and starved for knowledge and understanding. This is a problem that has become apparent worldwide in developed and developing countries. One of the keys to addressing this is data and information fusion. Fusion has long been the domain of a relatively small number of practioners in a largely classified endeavors within nations. This speech will address the changes in this world view that are coming about and discuss the burgeoning exchange of information about fusion on an increasingly global basis. It will also suggest some discipline and approaches essential to making fusion tools useful, and discuss some of the needed mechanisms and pitfalls as an international community comes together.
