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Unmasking Human Trafficking: New AI Research Reveals Hidden Recruitment Networks
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BALTIMORE, MD, May 24, 2025 – Most anti-human trafficking efforts focus on breaking up sex sales; however, new research in the INFORMS journal Manufacturing & Service Operations Management is turning its attention to where trafficking truly begins – recruitment. Using machine learning to analyze millions of online ads, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have uncovered patterns that link deceptive job offers to sex trafficking networks. By mapping the connections between recruitment and sales locations, the study reveals a hidden supply chain – one that can now be exposed and interrupted earlier in the trafficking process.

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Why Congress May Push Back on State AI Regulations
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House Republicans proposed a 10-year pause on state rules for artificial intelligence. What that could mean for consumer protections.

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Has flying become more dangerous? We speak to a Professor of statistics and a Director of aerospace engineering
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From the Jeju Airline tragedy to the Washington DC plane and helicopter collision, it makes you wonder whether flight safety standards have dropped.

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An audio journey of how data and analytics save lives, save money and solve problems.

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CEOs who appear on CNBC can see their pay rise over $200,000 per year

CEOs who appear on CNBC can see their pay rise over $200,000 per year

POST Online Media, June 19, 2017

New research in the INFORMS journal Organization Science that examined 4,452 CEOs from 2,666 U.S. firms, as well as 104,129 news articles and 6,567 CNBC interviews, found that CEOs who appeared in CNBC interviews could expect their compensation to increase by $210,239 on average, notwithstanding firm performance and other mitigating factors.

Storytelling: The Write Stuff

Storytelling: The Write Stuff

Analytics Magazine, June 15, 2017

New book, Write to Influence!, explains how to present analytics to a nontechnical audience. Hint: Shorter and clearer is better.

CEOs who appear on CNBC can see their pay rise over $200,000 per year

CEOs who appear on CNBC can see their pay rise over $200,000 per year

Knowridge Science Report, June 13, 2017

New research that examined 4,452 CEOs from 2,666 U.S. firms, as well as 104,129 news articles and 6,567 CNBC interviews, found that CEOs who appeared in CNBC interviews could expect their compensation to increase by $210,239 on average, notwithstanding firm performance and other mitigating factors. The study, “The Relationship between CEO Media Appearances and Compensation,” will be published in the upcoming volume of the INFORMS journal Organization Science.

More senior living communities are following in the footsteps of Edelman Award winning Holiday Retirement

More senior living communities are following in the footsteps of Edelman Award winning Holiday Retirement

McKnight's Senior Living, June 12, 2017

The country's largest senior living operator, Brookdale, is following in the footsteps of the country's largest independent living operator, Holiday Retirement, by rolling out a new pricing model that can tailor rent levels to individual communities and units within them. It's the same pricing system for which Holiday Retirement and Prorize received the 2017 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences in April from INFORMS, an international association for operations research and analytics professionals.

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