IP: Computer Project Seeks to Avert Youth Violence

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/10/biztech/articles/24violence.html
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> Computer Project Seeks to Avert Youth Violence
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> Columbine Spurs Pilot Program at Schools
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> By FRANCIS X. CLINES
> The New York Times
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> REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio -- Spurred by the deadly rampage at Columbine High School,
> the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is working with a
> threat-evaluation company to develop a computer program to help school
> administrators spot troubled students who might be near the brink of violence.
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> When the national pilot program, known as Mosaic-2000, begins testing at more
> than 20 schools in December, its technique of confidentially vetting and rating
> potentially violent students on a scale of 1 to 10 will come not a moment too
> soon for Steve Dackin, principal of Reynoldsburg High School.
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> "Columbine forever changed things for all of us," Dackin said of the school in
> Littleton, Colo., where two students shot 13 people to death before killing
> themselves in April.
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