> IBM teams with SFU to fight crime
IBM teams with SFU to fight crime
Contact:
Paul Brantingham, 604.291.4175; paul_brantingham@sfu.ca
Patricia Brantingham, 604.291.3515; patricia_brantingham@sfu.ca
Joanne Fortin, IBM, 514.964.8558; fortin@ca.ibm.com
Erica Branda, SFU University Advancement, 604.291.3353; ebranda@sfu.ca
Note: Backgrounder attached below
Paul Brantingham, 604.291.4175; paul_brantingham@sfu.ca
Patricia Brantingham, 604.291.3515; patricia_brantingham@sfu.ca
Joanne Fortin, IBM, 514.964.8558; fortin@ca.ibm.com
Erica Branda, SFU University Advancement, 604.291.3353; ebranda@sfu.ca
Note: Backgrounder attached below
April 23, 2007
Simon Fraser University is the recipient of a $5-million donation of new technology from IBM that will help law enforcement officials fight crime by targeting when, where, and why crimes are committed.
IBM will work with SFU’s Institute for Canadian Urban Research Studies to create a crime prevention and analysis lab. SFU criminologists Patricia and Paul Brantingham, who are both RCMP research chairs, will lead research to examine how factors such as city design, the layout of road networks, and shopping mall hours affect the location, frequency and severity of urban crime.
Cutting-edge technology at SFU will enable interdisciplinary teams of criminology and computing science researchers to sort through large amounts of data to develop crime prevention models that will help policy makers and law enforcement officials reduce crime.
"No place else in the world has the computing power dedicated to criminology research that we now have at SFU,” says Patricia Brantingham, ICURS director and RCMP chair in Computational Criminology. "IBM's technology donation combined with the tremendous amount of data that we have access to through our partnership with the RCMP will allow us to put research theory into practice and make major headway in reducing crime."
The SFU lab will be equipped with IBM’s threat and fraud intelligence and law enforcement technology, including IBM’s Crime Information Warehouse, Entity Analytic Solutions, Global Name Recognition, Information Integration Suite, DB2 Data Warehouse Edition and OmniFind.
IBM’s donation recognizes that intelligence is key to crime prevention. “Law enforcement agencies must be able to take many different pieces of information from a variety of sources and transform them into knowledge they can act on,” said Paul McCullough, Business Executive in the Public Safety and Defence sectors for IBM Canada.
The new crime prevention and analysis lab is expected to be running within the next two months.
Backgrounder
About SFU
SFU’s School of Computing Science, one of the largest in Western Canada, has over 700 undergraduate majors and over 170 graduate students. Each term, the School’s strong Co-op program places about 140 students with local, national and international industries.
SFU’s School of Criminology, one of just four such departments at Canadian universities, has more than 560 majors/minors undergraduate students and over 90 graduate students. (September 2004 data).
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For more information about IBM, go to www.ibm.com
IBM will work with SFU’s Institute for Canadian Urban Research Studies to create a crime prevention and analysis lab. SFU criminologists Patricia and Paul Brantingham, who are both RCMP research chairs, will lead research to examine how factors such as city design, the layout of road networks, and shopping mall hours affect the location, frequency and severity of urban crime.
Cutting-edge technology at SFU will enable interdisciplinary teams of criminology and computing science researchers to sort through large amounts of data to develop crime prevention models that will help policy makers and law enforcement officials reduce crime.
"No place else in the world has the computing power dedicated to criminology research that we now have at SFU,” says Patricia Brantingham, ICURS director and RCMP chair in Computational Criminology. "IBM's technology donation combined with the tremendous amount of data that we have access to through our partnership with the RCMP will allow us to put research theory into practice and make major headway in reducing crime."
The SFU lab will be equipped with IBM’s threat and fraud intelligence and law enforcement technology, including IBM’s Crime Information Warehouse, Entity Analytic Solutions, Global Name Recognition, Information Integration Suite, DB2 Data Warehouse Edition and OmniFind.
IBM’s donation recognizes that intelligence is key to crime prevention. “Law enforcement agencies must be able to take many different pieces of information from a variety of sources and transform them into knowledge they can act on,” said Paul McCullough, Business Executive in the Public Safety and Defence sectors for IBM Canada.
The new crime prevention and analysis lab is expected to be running within the next two months.
Backgrounder
About SFU
SFU’s School of Computing Science, one of the largest in Western Canada, has over 700 undergraduate majors and over 170 graduate students. Each term, the School’s strong Co-op program places about 140 students with local, national and international industries.
SFU’s School of Criminology, one of just four such departments at Canadian universities, has more than 560 majors/minors undergraduate students and over 90 graduate students. (September 2004 data).
About IBM
For more information about IBM, go to www.ibm.com