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The Keven Knight programmed supercomputer, CARMEL, will be taking a crack at the notorious Zodiac Killer cipher. Having previously cracked the Copiale Cipher, CARMEL has developed the ability to “think” like the mysterious serial killer. However, the investigative supercomputer seems to also have a talent for delving out creepy poetry.
To this day, the Zodiac Killer remains to be one of history’s most notorious serial killers, terrorizing the United States around the 60s and 70s. As depicted in the film, Zodiac, the unidentified person was one of the first serial killers to garner the attention of media, creating an almost mythos around the deviant.
The Zodiac killer took the lives of at least five Northern Californians and further admitted to the press that he killed an additional 37 victims.
Though his crimes were horrendous and he was never caught, this is not what made Zodiac infamous.
As part of his “game”, the Zodiac Killer would send cryptic messages to the police and press taunting them with details of his murders, motives, and potentially even his identity.
Even now, a majority of these letters have yet to be deciphered.
CARMEL could finally unmask the killer.
University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute professor Keven Knight is an expert in artificial intelligence, cryptography, and code breaking.
Having the ability to test trillions of possible linguistic solutions to find a “key, his creation, CARMEL, is using the writings of the Zodiac killer to break the cipher."
If CARMEL draws a blank, will our very own cryptographers continue their efforts? What about it, guys/gals?
What name will it come up with this time? Spiro T Agnew?
It won’t find anything. I used to believe he put out an incredible cipher. At some point, you have to conclude that there’s a reason the elite of the elite can’t crack it decades later, especially when his other was cracked in no time. It’s a bunch of nonsense. I’d be completely shocked if anyone ever found anything in it.
