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Homeland Security Avatars Simulate Stadium Stampede

(March 16) -- Imagine 70,000 people trying to exit a sports stadium after a bomb explodes during the game. That sort of mass chaos is precisely the idea behind a new computer program that tries to predict what would happen in a real-world terrorist attack or other emergency involving tens of thousands of people attending a...

Background on avatars

In Hinduism, an avatar' (; ; from Sanskrit in the Devanagari script, meaning "descent") is a deliberate descent of a deity to earth, or a descent of the Supreme Being (i.e., Vishnu for Vaishnavites) and is mostly translated into English as "incarnation," but more accurately as "appearance" or "manifestation".

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