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| Monday, November 13, 2006 |
The airlines and our goverment still and working on way to create security at airports or at least the appearance of security. The industry and the overall economy needs for people to feel safe about flying.
This is an excerpt from a post on 27B Stroke 6:
If you do the math, improving the detection of plastic explosives and guns would likely be more effective at preventing and deterring terrorist attacks on planes than figuring out better methods for trying to pinpoint terrorists with watch lists and algorithms, according to a mathematical study to be published in December.
Susan Martonosi, a mathematics professor at Harvey Mudd college, and Arnold Barnett of MIT's Sloan School of Management devised a mathematical model for judging the effectiveness of various security measures at preventing and deterring a terrorist who wanted to sneak a weapon through security. While they lacked data on how well the watchlists, puffer machines and x-ray machines, Martonisi and Barnett developed a mathematical model which showed that improvements in the screening that all passengers go through was more likely to improve airline safety than better passenger-centric solutions, such as the long-delayed Secure Flight program |
posted by Domesticated Dog @ 3:19 PM   |
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