{"57605":{"#nid":"57605","#data":{"type":"news","title":"GIMME 5: TECH computer makes sense of madness","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAtlanta Journal Constitution\u003C\/em\u003E - March 19, 2008\u003Cbr \/\u003EThree systems engineering professors at GEORGIA TECH have created a computer ranking system, called LRMC, that predicts college basketball rankings more accurately than most, correctly listing 26 of the 32 regional champs as one of the top two teams in their region in the past eight NCAA tournaments. Joel Sokol, one of the professors, gives us five teams the computer likes this year:\u003Cbr \/\u003E 1. Kansas \u003Cbr \/\u003E 2. Memphis \u003Cbr \/\u003E 3. Duke\u003Cbr \/\u003E 4. UCLA. \u003Cbr \/\u003E 5. North Carolina \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/\u0022\u003Ewww.ajc.com\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2008-03-19 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:32","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-03-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-03-19T00:00:00-04:00","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":""}}}