Abstract: Disclosed herein is a Technological Emergence Scoring and Analysis Platform. The platform provides emergence scores for terms and a set of emergence indicators based on the scores. The platform can be used to quantitatively distinguish scientific and technological emergent topics within a target data category. The platform can take a set of data comprising a plurality of records and calculate an emergence score for terms and phrases representing the terms' or phrases' technological emergence.

Abstract: A computing system and method to implement a three-dimensional virtual reality world having user created virtual objects. During the creation of a virtual object, a user of the virtual reality world identifies components and/or resources of the virtual object, such as a mesh model defining the shape of the virtual object, an image specifying the appearance of the virtual object, and a script defining the run time behavior of the virtual object. The computer system examines the components and/or resources duration the creation process of the virtual object to detect and/or address security threats and/or performance hurdles. Before the approval of the publication of the virtual object in the virtual world, the computer system performs a simulation of the rendering of the virtual object to detect security threats and evaluate performance impacts.