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Given the scale of the world’s food supply, there aren’t many industries that lend themselves to the power of data science and analytics than agriculture. This is the thinking behind a new research paper from a group of data scientists who make a case for finding new ways to use blockchain, AI and API management to enable “smart agriculture.”  The paper, “Agricultural Digital Transformation,” has been published in the OR/MS Today journal from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).

Dr. Sheldon Jacobson was interviewed on Costal Daybreak about algorithmic redistricting in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision to send the issue of congressional redistricting back to the States.

A paper in the INFORMS journal of Organization Science find the gender pay gap lessens among university presidents at prestigious universities.

While serious economic and societal issues continue to swirl around the gender pay gap, new research published in the INFORMS journal Organization Science shows one area where this inequality is starting to disappear—higher education. Researchers have found that the gender pay gap disappears at more prestigious universities.

A new study finds that the gender pay gap for university presidents -- currently about 9 percent -- in large part disappears at the most elite colleges and universities. The study was published in the journal Organization Science.