Computer Predicts Prisoners' Chances of Murdering AgainS  A
university professor has invented a computer program with
crystal ball powers, only its channel is tuned purely to
predicting the probability of murders—specifically, if inmates
at a Pennsylvanian prison will ever kill again.  Richard Berk,
the University of Pennsylvania professor, has successfully
placed it in the probation departments of Philadelphia and
Baltimore police departments, and been awarded a $228,000 grant
to build a program that can be used for the state parole board
by next year.  It's a high-tech number-crunching system, with
thousands of details on prison inmates' details being entered,
along with information on their release. This will help build
profiles of behavioral patterns, and when the system is ready,
the user will be able to get a more accurate prediction on how
they're likely to act once released, based on other similar
cases.  They're able to see that inmates who are more likely to
murder again after being released, with a