Searching for Resources on Forensic Computing?

Posted by Cliff on Thursday February 28, 2002 @07:17PM from the if-the-weekly-fix-of-CSI-isn't-enough dept.

Computer-quincyME asks: "I am very interested in forensic computing (using computers to help forensics, like in blood spatter analysis, geographic profiling etc.) but despite some extensive Googling, I'm not able to find any decent site that contains information on current forensic problems that don't have yet an acceptable computing implementation (I'd like to try my hand at writing some forensic software in my spare time, and I wouldn't want to reinvent the wheel, but to create something useful). Any forensics experts in the Slashdot crowd that could give me a hand? Do you know of any tasks you have to routinely do these days by hand that you would kill to have more automated? Also, how did you end up in your current job?"

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Physics Modeling.... by josquint · 2002-03-01 05:06 · Score: 3, Insightful

There's a bunch of database/comparison software out there... so no big need to reinvent those.

However, one thing I'd like more of would be physics/event recreation and modeling. Granted, it's very complex stuff. But to be able to analyze blood splatters, glass breakage, etc in software would be great. Although manual inspection usually suffices, putting events together in one similation would be benificial, especially giving a deposition.