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Preventing Epidemics with STEM

Posted by Zonk on from the stop-em-where-they-live dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "IBM has released a Linux based technology enabling spatiotemporal modeling of infectious agents across the United States, providing scientists and public health officials with a powerful tool for understanding, and potentially preventing, the spread of infectious diseases. The new STEM technology provides Geographic Information System (GIS) data for every county in the United States supplied by TIGER files."

6 of 114 comments (clear)

  1. Intelligence an asset by skomes · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anybody who understands 100% of the article should get an automatic 15 points.

  2. I want it.. by Tobias.Davis · · Score: 0, Funny

    I want first post, but I don't want to be modded down. Therefore I will give a halfass theory about this software. 1.> Software is used to track diseases 2.> Server is infected with a virus 3.> ??? 4.> Profit!

  3. Zombie Infection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can it stop Zombie Infection?

  4. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 4, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  5. Re:Linux... by aussie_a · · Score: 2, Funny


    it is not only immune from viruses, it stops them too!

    It's virii damnit! Not viruses.

  6. Stem Cells by Soul-Burn666 · · Score: 3, Funny

    So if this new "STEM" technology runs on IBM's CELL processors, will we get STEM CELLs?

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