{"57532":{"#nid":"57532","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Professors Choose Tourney Favs","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESay Campus Life\u003C\/em\u003E - March 17, 2009 (\u003Cem\u003EAtlanta Business Chronicle, LA Business Journal and over 160 other hits\u003C\/em\u003E)\u003Cbr \/\u003EThree professors at Georgia Tech have devised a computer program they have labeled Logistic Regression Markov Chain (or LRMC) which they claim will predict the winner of this year\u0027s NCAA Division 1 Men\u0027s Basketball Tournament. According to professors Joel Sokol, Paul Kvam and George Nemhauser, the North Carolina Tarheels should emerge as the champion next month.  The professors devised their computer ranking program for last year\u0027s tournament which correctly picked each of the Final Four teams and accurately predicted that the University of Kansas would beat Memphis in the championship game. \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.saycampuslife.com\/2009\/03\/17\/georgia-tech-professors-choose-tourney-favs\/\u0022\u003E Read more\u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2009-03-17 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:25","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-03-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-03-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"57458","name":"ISyE External News"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}