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New Study Reveals AI’s Transformative Impact on ICU Care with Smarter Predictions and Transparent Insights
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BALTIMORE, MD, January 16, 2025 – Intensive care units (ICUs) face mounting pressure to effectively manage resources while delivering optimal patient care. Groundbreaking research published in the INFORMS journal Information Systems Research highlights how a novel artificial intelligence (AI) model is revolutionizing ICU care by not only improving predictions of patient length of stay, but also equipping clinicians with clear, evidence-based insights to guide critical decisions.

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America must act to secure its ‘legacy chips’ from China and other competitors
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Cutting-edge chips, especially those designed to power emerging AI applications, tend to receive the most attention in the media and generate the most excitement. However, so-called “legacy” chips are just as important — if not more — to our daily lives.  

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Do blood donation centers sell your blood?
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January is National Blood Donor Month and, not coincidentally, a time when donations tend to ebb. Every two seconds, someone in the U.S. needs blood for serious injuries, childbirth, cancer treatments and more, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. 

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UPS George D. Smith Prize finalists 2016

UPS George D. Smith Prize finalists 2016

News Release, February 24, 2016

The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®) today announced three finalist schools in the competition for the UPS George D. Smith Prize, an award created to strengthen ties between academia and industry. The award recognizes excellence in preparing students to become practitioners of analytics and operations research.

Riders on crowded trains key on mobile ads: Marketing Science study

Mobile Marketer, February 24, 2016

A recent university study on the effect of hyper-contextual targeting and physical space found that passengers on crowded subway cars shop and buy more in response to mobile ads than those in less crowded cars.  

A key takeaway is that riders in crowded subway trains are good targets for mobile advertising...

The study is published in the INFORMS journal Marketing Science.

INFORMS launches new website of comprehensive information about university analytics programs

INFORMS launches new website of comprehensive information about university analytics programs

News Release, February 23, 2016

CATONSVILLE, MD, February 23, 2016 – Students searching for the right analytics graduate program, business people seeking to hire analytics talent, analytics professors developing syllabi, and deans developing analytics programs have all shared one common challenge – a lack of a unified and comprehensive way to find data sets and problems and research the rapid changes, offerings, and opportunities in analytics education. Until now.

Riders in crowded subway trains are good targets for mobile advertising

News Release, February 9, 2016

CATONSVILLE, MD, February 10, 2016 – What do irritable, squished riders on a crowded subway train do? According to a forthcoming study in the INFORMS journal Marketing Science, they often immerse themselves in their mobile phones to escape the crowd, and that they shop and buy more in response to mobile ads in the crowded train.

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