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Artificial Intelligence to Predict Sports Injuries

Posted by michael on from the slow-down-cowboy dept.

nakhla writes "MSNBC.com is running a story on how an Italian soccer team is using artificial intelligence to predict sports injuries. The team is working with Computer Associates to develop neural network technology that can be combined with daily tests of the athletes to determine patterns which occur right before a player gets injured. Of course, one has to assume that it wouldn't be able to predict a player getting kicked in the head in the middle of the game, resulting in a concussion." I was wondering how to tie a World Cup story into Slashdot. Congratulations to Senegal.

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  1. Americans and soccer by Ryne · · Score: 4, Informative

    an Italian soccer team

    ah gawd, AC Milan is one of the most famous teams in the world, maybe the name could be included in the article, not just an Italian soccer team.

    1. Re:Americans and soccer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative
      their name uses the English language version of their home city's name. Around the days of big matches it is not unusual to see signs on the autostrade around where the final "o" in "Milano" has been painted out by fans.

      sorry you are totally mistaken

      Milan is the correct spelling in most (all?) northern Italian dialects. It's therefore the native spelling of the city Italians know as Milano

      . (just as Trst is the native spelling of Trieste :-).)

  2. Re:soccer sucks by Monsieur_F · · Score: 2, Informative
    The only people who play soccer are those who can't play any other real sport like football or baseball.


    Most people who play soccer are actually playing football as it is under this name that they play it.

    Maybe you find it hard to understand that a sport with this name consists mainly in kicking a ball with your foot, rather than a sport in which you take something called a ball, but that is not even round, and taking it in your hands...

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  3. Re:That's Scary by G0SP0DAR · · Score: 1, Informative

    Ja nemam nista protiv Talijana, ali dok zivim u Americi, ista da se radi onde nije moja briga. :) Prema mi, fudbol je dosadan.

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