BALTIMORE, MD, April 23, 2025 – As plastic pollution in the world’s oceans reaches critical levels, groundbreaking new research reveals how artificial intelligence-driven algorithms can dramatically accelerate plastic waste removal – boosting efficiency by more than 60%.
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Every day millions of people rely on GPS to navigate to and from locations around the world. But what happens if you must frequently travel through an area that is accessed primarily by private roads, or you drive a vehicle that cannot safely navigate on certain routes?
According to a new study in the INFORMS journal Information Systems Research, even though online social platforms are offering several privacy controls to users, it depends on the user how to use them making privacy a debatable issue. Using data obtained from Facebook researchers tested the relationship between privacy controls and disclosure patterns of Facebook users based on two popular content-sharing activities: Wall posts and private messages. The study found people have different views on the value of privacy controls in managing disclosures, and therefore privacy dangers.
Deepak Agrawal, a doctoral student in industrial engineering, will be receiving two awards at the Institute of Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) 2016 Annual Meeting in Nashville. Agrawal will be receiving the Judith Liebman Award and INFORMS Volunteer Service Award at the Meritorious Level. The awards were designed to recognize INFORMS members who have made exceptional and sustained contributions to their university’s INFORMS chapter.
A new study in the INFORMS journal Marketing Science found that leveraging psychological theories on sympathy when drafting a fundraising letter can increase donations by more than 300 percent.
Ruth Williams, Ph.D., was awarded the John von Neumann Theory Prize at the annual meeting of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) in Nashville, TN. She shares the award with researcher Martin Reiman from the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Columbia University. The John von Neumann Prize, considered the Nobel Prize in the math field, is named after a famed mathematician and was established in 1975.
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