A professor at Oklahoma State University says he’s developed a program that can predict how movies will fare at the box office.Professor Ramesh Sharda has been working on the model for seven years and analyzed more than 800 films, applying them to seven criteria: rating by censors, competition from other films at the time of release, strength of the cast, genre, special effects, whether it is a sequel, and the number of theatres it opens in. His Netflix queue must be enormous.The program then predicts which of 9 categories the movie will in, from flop (earning less than $1 million) to blockbuster (more than $200 million). Sharda says the program has proven accurate 37% of the time and 75% of the time is accurate to within one category. Those stats sound similar to the “Guess Your Weight” carneys at the fair. But, naturally, Hollywood is on the phone for Sharda.Via Drudge Related content news analysis FBI/IC3: Vile $5B business e-mail scam continues to breed FBI/IC3 reports over 40,000 worldwide victims and $5 billion in the latest reckoning By Michael Cooney May 08, 2017 5 mins Security news analysis Ultimate geek dream? NASA challenges you to jump on the FORTRAN bandwagon! NASA opens High Performance Fast Computing Challenge By Michael Cooney May 05, 2017 4 mins Government Open Source Enterprise Applications news analysis Fragmented, disorganized IT systems thwart feds ability to track visas DHS OIG says ineffective IT process has contributed to a backlog of more than 1.2 million visa overstay cases. By Michael Cooney May 04, 2017 5 mins Analytics Data Center Security news analysis TSA: “As you can imagine, live anti-tank rounds are strictly prohibited altogether.” TSA finds live anti-tank round in carry-on bag By Michael Cooney Apr 28, 2017 2 mins Security Podcasts Videos Resources Events NEWSLETTERS Newsletter Promo Module Test Description for newsletter promo module. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe