Abstract: A system and method to predict future legislation using sentiment and analytics. The method includes capturing analytics based on factors that drive a new piece of legislation such that a voting prediction can be determined. The method applies analytics across a large population of politicians (e.g., Senate, House of Representatives) for predetermining how legislation will pass or fail. The method performs: generating a sentiment score, a sentiment momentum value for a topic; generating a correlation between a new legislation topic and previous associated topics and their outcomes; generating a sentiment score and a sentiment momentum of politicians to vote on the new legislation; generating a correlation between a politician's likely vote on new legislation based on previous voting record for that politician; and using analytics to correlate between sentiment and voting correlations between topics and politicians and predict a potential vote of a politician on a given legislative topic.

Abstract: An printer, such as a state of the art a high performance, electro-photographic printer. The printer includes at least one smart material sensor enclosed in the printer enclosure that monitors for the presence of a contaminant (e.g., toner or developer) above a selected threshold. Each smart material sensor is coupled to a control unit by a sensor driver coupling. When a smart material sensor finds that a contaminant is present the control unit may indicate the finding on a printer display and/or change operating mode.

Abstract: An printer, such as a state of the art a high performance, electro-photographic printer. The printer includes at least one smart material sensor enclosed in the printer enclosure that monitors for the presence of a contaminant (e.g., toner or developer) above a selected threshold. Each smart material sensor is coupled to a control unit by a sensor driver coupling. When a smart material sensor finds that a contaminant is present the control unit may indicate the finding on a printer display and/or change operating mode.