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New algorithm aims to predict ISIS attacks
A physicist from the University of Miami has created an algorithm that can scan the Islamic State's social media posts and may eventually be used to predict the group's next terrorist attack. In the journal Science today, Dr. Neil Johnson and his team described their method of searching through roughly a year's worth of posts on the Russia-based social network Vkontakte, looking for pro-ISIS statements in multiple languages. The resulting data allowed Johnson and team to build out "a statistical model aimed at identifying behavioral patterns among online supporters of ISIS."
