{"277301":{"#nid":"277301","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Software Program Aims to Stop Deadly Pandemic Spread","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPicture this scenario: A novel infectious disease is sweeping through the world\u2019s population, and health officials have only a day or two to stop its deadly spread. While this may sound like the plot of a movie thriller, health officials argue that an event of this kind could become a reality sometime in the near future.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearchers at the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS) annual meeting say that new drug-resistant infectious diseases are appearing more frequently and spreading faster than ever before. In order to best address the next outbreak, ISyE Professor Eva Lee presented a novel software program at AAAS called RealOpt. You can read about the program that sifts through massive amounts of data to better optimize decision-making during the event of an emergency scenario \u2013 especially in the case of a deadly outbreak here: \u003Ca class=\u0022moz-txt-link-freetext\u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/fxn.ws\/1j95QrL\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/fxn.ws\/1j95QrL\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;ISyE Professor Eva Lee presented a novel software program at the\u0026nbsp;American Association for the Advancement of Sciences\u0026nbsp;called RealOpt, a program that sifts through massive amounts of data to better optimize decision-making during the event of an emergency scenario \u2013 especially in the case of a deadly outbreak.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ISyE Professor Eva Lee presented a software program at the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences called RealOpt, a program that sifts through massive amounts of data to better optimize decision-making during the event of an emergency."}],"uid":"27868","created_gmt":"2014-02-19 10:33:48","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:15:36","author":"Lizzie Millman","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-02-19T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-02-19T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"72648":{"id":"72648","type":"image","title":"Eva Lee","body":null,"created":"1449177942","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:25:42","changed":"1475894661","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:21"}},"media_ids":["72648"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1043","name":"eva lee"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}