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Boston Using IBM Engineers To Solve Traffic Problems

Posted by samzenpus on from the no-parking dept.

vu1986 writes "Boston won the opportunity to pick the brains of six IBM engineers — including one from Tokyo — who flew in to check out its traffic situation and figure out a way to consolidate, analyze and use existing traffic data feeds as well as new data sources including (of course) Twitter feeds, to ease the city's notorious traffic jams."

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  1. what if you dug a gigantic tunnell... by decora · · Score: 5, Funny

    right under the city? it would probably solve those traffic problems for good! also, it wouldn't cost that much, and it wouldn't take that long.

  2. Re:Why IBM? by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 4, Funny

    Exactly. Microsoft, on the other hand, has decades of expertise in this area. I'd recommend deploying Microsoft Traf-O-Data 2011, the newest version featuring seamless interoperability with MS Office and other popular software. That IBM stuff will still be using punch cards for sure anyway.

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    Ezekiel 23:20
  3. CSMA/CD by PPH · · Score: 4, Funny

    Everyone goes. When a collision is detected, everyone backs up and tries again.

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    Have gnu, will travel.