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DCIThe Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals convened in Seattle in 2001, where representatives of data-mining services such as Don Smith, shownhere, gathered to exhibit new software and explain their data-mining techniques. AP/WIDE WORLD PHOTOS.data). Increasingly, biological and computer scientists areadvocating that databases be constructed using a similartemplate, or that they be amenable to analysis using thesame search method.❚ FURTHER READING:BOOKS:Edelstein, Herbert A. Introduction to Data Mining andKnowledge Discovery, Third Editon. Potomac, MD: TwoCrows Corporation, 1999.Han, Jiawei and Micheline Kamber. Data Mining: Conceptsand Techniques. New York: Morgan KaufmannPublishers, 2000.ELECTRONIC:What You Need To Know About. “Data Mining: An Introduction.”About.com. (17December 2002).SEE ALSOCyber SecurityInformation Security❚ JUDSON KNIGHTDCI (Director of the CentralIntelligence Agency)The director of Central Intelligence (DCI) is the head of theU.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), principal intelligenceadvisor to the president, and leader of the U.S.Intelligence Community. The director oversees intelligenceactivities both on a broad scale, and through highly targetedoperations such as the DCI Crime and Narcotics Center,the DCI Counterterrorist Center, and the DCI Center forWeapons Intelligence, Nonproliferation, and Arms Control.DCI also prepares the annual intelligence communitybudget, and chairs two advisory boards, the NationalForeign Intelligence Board and the Intelligence CommunityExecutive Committee. Notable DCIs of the past includeAllen W. Dulles, the consummate 1950s cold warrior;Richard M. Helms, who led the CIA in the Vietnam andWatergate eras; Stansfield Turner, who sought to clean upthe agency in the wake of scandals in the 1970s; and308 Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security