Many of these invasive species were intentionally introduced by government-financed programs.
Like so many invasive species that now run amuck on islands around the world, mongooses were intentionally introduced to Hawaii.
With open-source software, independent security experts can scrutinize the code for vulnerabilities — whether accidentally or intentionally introduced.
Breeding farms were started in North America and Europe, and some animals escaped or were intentionally introduced into the wild.
He said he concluded that "biases can be, and have been, intentionally introduced that favor the company funding the study".
But it's far more likely that the story has warped in the telling, and that the strange location was never intentionally introduced.
Robert T. Fraley, chief technology officer for Monsanto, called the finding in the field suspicious and said evidence indicated that someone had intentionally introduced the modified wheat seed.
The founders of IEX intentionally introduced a 350-microsecond delay to ensure that high-speed traders could not act on updated information from the exchange before regular investors.
Of course, the vast majority of nonnative species have not been intentionally introduced, as the Mount Sutro eucalyptus were, but have been distributed accidentally, unnoticed baggage in the wanderings of our species.
The Times reports that in 2006, the N.S.A. intentionally introduced a vulnerability into an encryption standard adopted by both the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the International Organization for Standardization.
were intentionally introduced as ornamentals.
