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General Discussion => Science & Nature => Topic started by: sam on December 10, 2009, 01:21

Title: Mathematical models key to tracking gossip, terrorists
Post by: sam on December 10, 2009, 01:21

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Thanks to the Internet and online social networks (OSNs) news and gossip now spread literally like wildfire -- uncontrollably and seemingly without any order. But according to one Ryerson researcher, there is method to the madness. With the right mathematical model, you could spot when and where a story starts, then watch as it skips across the Internet. One day, similar models could even detect and track terrorist cells within OSNs.

http://www.physorg.com/news179607879.html