BALTIMORE, MD, February 20, 2025 – A groundbreaking new study published in the INFORMS journal Decision Analysis unveils a powerful new tool to tackle the opioid crisis, offering a pathway to slash costs by nearly 30% while saving lives.
On Jan. 21, OpenAI launched the $500 billion Stargate Project with partners like Arm, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Oracle. This initiative aimed to secure American AI leadership, create jobs, and boost the economy. Initially, this boosted the stock prices of these companies.
Living in limbo: An estimated 2 million U. S. federal employees were thrust into a decision they did not seek to make. A deadline from the Trump Administration was halted last week, and is now in the hands of a judge. When a deadline is set those employees will have to make a high-stakes choice: Take a buyout and resign, or they can choose to stay in an uncertain job environment, including the possibility of being laid-off or having significant changes in work duties or leave with a buyout. This current reprieve gives these federal employees a little more time, but the fundamental question for each of them remains: What’s the right move for your career and future?
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INFORMS President Ramayya Krishnan shares how AI and automation are impacting the workforce. In particular, he addresses fears of job replacement by automation, stating, "What we have to remember is that a job is a role that consists of a bundle of tasks, so a job itself won't be replaced but some of the tasks may be."
INFORMS member Gah-Yi Ban has recently published a TEDx Talk on “The power and perils of algorithms” in which she discusses the role of algorithms in our lives and how we can shape their role in the future.
The increasing number of travelers choosing to fly, especially during the travel heavy summer season, has lead to longer lines at airport security, even for TSA PreCheck passengers. Sheldon Jacobson, INFORMS Fellow and Founder Professor in Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, discusses how the TSA can better utilize the guidelines and procedures established by the PreCheck, and encourage more travelers to enroll, to accommodate new changes in airport security and increase screening effectiveness.
CATONSVILLE, MD, June 17, 2019 – While serious economic and societal issues continue to swirl around the gender pay gap, new research published in the INFORMS journal Organization Science shows one area where this inequality is starting to disappear—higher education. Researchers have found that the gender pay gap disappears at more prestigious universities.
As the amount of content and advertising exponentially increases, product placement can still be an effective way to reach consumers. According to new research from the INFORMS journal Marketing Science, verbal product placements have the most success at driving online engagement around a brand. Luxury brands including BMW, Land Rover and Shangri-La have previously used product placement in television and film to get consumers' attention.
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