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Computers to save death row inmates?
Jun 26 2008, Taylor Flatt

Death row is the end of the line for most people, but some are lucky enough to appeal and get off the sentence. But could there be a computer to predict who lives and who ‘dies’? The US might just have something like that. ANN, artificial neural...

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