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Homeland Security Avatars Simulate Stadium Stampede

By Sharon WeinbergerMar 16th 2010 – 4:08PM
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(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 computer modeling

A computer simulation, a computer model, or a computational model is a computer program, or network of computers, that attempts to simulate an abstract model of a particular system.

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