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Preventing Epidemics with STEM

Posted by Zonk on Saturday April 23, 2005 @08:54PM 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."

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Linux... by 0x461FAB0BD7D2 · 2005-04-23 20:59 · Score: 3, Informative

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

Note: this technology is based on Java2. It should run on any Java-supported platform, although IBM only lists Win2000 and Linux as supported platforms.