The Intersect is a fictional secret technology appearing in the television series '' Chuck '' . Within the series , it was originally developed by the United States intelligence community to house and analyze large quantities of encoded data . The term refers to the computer in its manufactured form ( " We built the Intersect " ) as well as its presence in a human brain ( " He has the Intersect in his head " ) , and can also be used to refer to the human who has downloaded it ( " The Intersect will observe and report on what he sees " , " He 's the human Intersect " ) . Wired magazine included Chuck with The Intersect in " 10 of Sci-Fi ’s Most Memorable Humans With Programmable Brains " . When United States ' PRISM surveillance program was revealed , The Intersect was an example of how TV had anticipated data mining and data as the weapon , " that power lay not simply in the collection of massive amounts of data , but the computer-assisted ability to analyze , break down , and see patterns in it . " Following 9/11 , the CIA and NSA were instructed to " play nice " and share their intelligence , in turn making it easier to track and identify threats to national security , and the manufactured Intersect is " how ( they ) did that " . They put " every scrap of data they had " into the computer , and the Intersect " saw " patterns in the data that the agencies had not . For example , Chuck describes in " Chuck Versus the Intersect " that multiple agencies had picked up information suggesting a bombing attempt against General Stanfield during the speech he was due to give , but the CIA and NSA each only had part of the picture . The Intersect cross-checked and combined both groups ' intelligence to determine the full nature of the threat . Dr. Howard Busgang ( code name Perseus ) was one of the technicians involved in its design and development , as was Dr. Jonas Zarnow . The chief designer is Stephen J. Bartowski ( code name Orion ) , Chuck 's father . Hartley Winterbottom and Ted Roark were the two other lead designers on the Intersect project
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