Sunday, September 11, 2011

An Omniscient Supercomputer Is In the Forecast

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14841018
Kalev Leetaru, from the University of Illinois, has performed a study with a supercomputer that takes in sources from Open Source Center and BBC Monitoring, and then scans the articles for mood/tone and location. The data was then put into SGI Altix supercomputer (Nautilus) which made graphs depicting shifts in the mood of a country, or a city, which gave some foresight into what would happen at the time. The study has only applied to past events, but Leetaru hopes to set up a real-time system to help predict major events before they happen.

"Supercomputer predicts revolution." bbc.co.uk. BBC News,  9 Sept. 2011. Web. 11 Sept. 2011.

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