“Predictive policing” has an enticing ring to it. The idea is that you feed a bunch of data into a mysterious algorithm, and poof, out comes intelligence about the future that tells police where the ...

This predictive software analyzes data to flag behaviors that could lead to policy violations. The program is intended to be preventative, offering training and mental health resources rather than ...

“If we can avoid issues before they happen, it's an enormous game," Cisco's JP Vasseur said. “One of the mechanisms that we believe is used by the brain to learn is a prediction,” JP Vasseur, Cisco ...