Other key patents IBM obtained last year were for predicting traffic problems by using GPS and communicating the delays to drives, finding patterns across disparate data sources and an invention for enabling analysis of medical data from multiple sources to improve the research, diagnosisand treatment of medical conditions.
He added that politicians' responses to the four days of rioting and looting created a danger of the "wrong analysis leading to the wrong diagnosis, leading to the wrong prescription".
The researchers repeated their analysis 10 times, splitting up their study group (children with a medical diagnosis of autism and children with no signs of autism) in different ways.