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Walter O'Brien is a computer security expert who in his hacking days went by the handle of scorpion but he's now lending that handle and his past to the creation of a new CBS primetime drama Walter can you give me a little bit of an idea of how the show got started sure the company's been around 25 years and we have a harvesting Department rather than an HR department to harvest IQ from the planet and they're getting a hot it's getting harder and harder to find more geniuses so we thought be a great idea if we could tell our story maybe have them find us and then CSI has been on the air about ten years now and they've influenced a lot of kids to study chemistry and biology so if we can do the same thing for kids studying computer science or artificial intelligence it'll be a huge benefit of this country over the next eight years O'Brien is one of the world's leading experts when it comes to applying computer science and artificial intelligence to complex industry challenges hacking to me is really just a mentality it's one of your biohacking a body or hacking a technology system it's a way of thinking outside the box of seeing what's not there of questioning assumptions of going around the obvious his first run-in with the law happened at a young age just 13 when he worked his way into NASA computers to download Space Shuttle blueprints to hang on his wall when I was 13 years old there was a curious kid and I got on the ARPANET before his called the Internet and back then 1987 the coolest thing to do was try and get any imagery any good cool pictures on the computer he could and I found an AutoCAD file on the ARPANET that was very very large which meant it was very complex so I managed to piece together the file and it was the blueprints to the spaceship Columbia he was caught but after we helped them to improve their security Homeland Security looking for Walter O'Brien scorpion the show follows the exploits of a fictional Walter O'Brien as he goes about creating what will become scorpion computer services which in the real world is a consulting firm with thousands of employees technology runs the world software runs technology and sometimes software goes very very wrong a minute which one is it and humans as we call them have a 3% human error and a lot of companies can't afford to be wrong three percent at a time anymore so we closed that 3% gap using some of the technologies the AI we've developed that doesn't make mistakes to compensate for human error you want to do something meaningful here's your chance scorpion has developed solutions for private firms and government entities recently helping to identify the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings purely by analyzing security footage in a rotate your cameras it's harder to claim that you've stopped wars that you've never heard of because you stopped them so you're trying to prove a negative but two things in the world in general be a lot worse if there weren't people are really really dedicated and they don't sleep and they don't go home till the problems fixed worries scorpion premieres on September 22nd and while episodes may take some liberties with the truth Walter hopes the focus on tech will be enough to inspire a new generation of computer scientists my name is Walter O'Brien and I'm a genius