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| IBM $5 million tech grant to fight crime |
May 1, 2007 |
IBM is donating $5 million worth of new technology to create a crime prevention and analysis lab at Simon Fraser University. The donation will help law enforcement officials fight crime by understanding when, where and why crimes are committed, IBM said.
Two RCMP research chairs, Drs. Patricia and Paul Brantingham, will lead work at the Institute for Canadian Urban Research Studies 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.
The SFU lab will be equipped with IBM technology including Crime Information Warehouse, Entity Analytic Solutions, Global Name Recognition, Information Integration Suite, DB2 Data Warehouse Edition and OmniFind. The new lab is expected to be in operation by the summer.
“No place else in the world has the computing power dedicated to criminology research that we now have at SFU,” said Dr. Patricia Brantingham. “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.”
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