Rice University software helps ID terrorists carrying out attacks
Monday, January 12, 2009 - 15:14
in Mathematics & Economics
Rice University researchers have created a sophisticated new computer program that rapidly scans large databases of news reports to determine which terrorists groups might be responsible for new attacks. During the Thanksgiving Day attack in Mumbai, India, for example, researchers used the program to rapidly identify the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayyiba as the most likely culprit.
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