In what could help building better strategy for anti-terror mechanism in the country, the Department of Science and Technology is facilitating a group of bright scientists to develop a complex human cognitive technology which would allow reading the mind of a terrorist.
At the same time, scientists are also developing sensors that would detect hidden devices. As many as 30 groups are involved in the initiative, part of homeland security, Secretary in the Department of Science and Technology, T Ramasami, told PTI.
The idea is to integrate the technology and sensors to nail down terrorists, he said.
The Department is funding the programme, which has been taken up on a consortium model, Ramasami said, adding, he is requesting Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, to lead the teams.
"People who understand language, linguistics and people who look at nuclear magnetic resonance...They have come together to really understand the human cognition associated with the linguistic language processes in the mind," he said. "This would really involve people from highly different disciplines including social sciences and humanities to people who understand physics in this mechanism."
According to Ramasami, it took one year to bring the teams together for the job.
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"And what we hope to do with this kind of activity is to really understand.....I think if it extrapolates...We should be able to find a guy with terrorist intent without even weapon," he said. "We have to move into that direction".
Ramasami also said scientists are looking at developing sensors which would detect hidden, concealed devices.
"We are trying to integrate them in fine form," he said.