{"57461":{"#nid":"57461","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech profs predict Kansas to beat Duke in final","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAtlanta Business Chronicle\u003C\/em\u003E - March 17, 2010\u003Cbr \/\u003EA computer ranking system by three Georgia Tech professors predicts Kansas will face Duke in this year\u0027s NCAA basketball final with Kansas emerging as the victor.  The computer ranking system -- LRMC (Logistic Regression Markov Chain) -- says this year\u0027s NCAA Final Four match-ups will be Kansas vs. Syracuse and Duke vs. West Virginia with Kansas taking the title.  \u0022There are several upsets predicted in the earlier rounds,\u0022 said Joel Sokol, operations research professor in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. \u0022Among others, San Diego State, Utah State, Murray State and Brigham Young could be surprises.  \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/atlanta.bizjournals.com\/atlanta\/stories\/2010\/03\/15\/daily37.html?surround=lfn\u0022\u003ERead more\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":"2010-03-17 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:22","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-03-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-03-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"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":""}}}