Social networks could be analyzed to reveal the nodes that act as hubs and trace back to individual planners and perpetrators, which when applied to the 9/11 terrorist attacks correctly inferred important individuals responsible for the attacks.
UCSB develops the Allosphere, a three-story cube that allows researchers to immerse themselves in a three-dimensional visualization of scientific data.
A robot makes its own scientific discoveries as it designs hypotheses and carries out experiments to confirm them, discovering which genes code for specific enzymes in a species of yeast.