{"59968":{"#nid":"59968","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Lee Recognized for Health Care Management Research","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences, which recognizes\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  research excellence in the broad field of management science, has awarded its\u0026nbsp;2005\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  Pierskalla Award in health care and management science to \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/profile.php?entry=el44\u0022\u003EEva\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  Lee\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  of industrial and systems engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  Lee was recognized for her research in emergency treatment response and real-time\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  staff allocation for bioterrorism and infectious disease outbreak.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E The research, a collaboration with Siddhartha Maheshwary and Dr. Jacquelyn Mason at the Centers for Disease Control, was cited as timely and innovative, advancing research frontiers of both management science and health care services. The award is named after Dr. William Pierskalla to recognize his contribution and dedication to improving health services research and delivery through operations research.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELee\u0027s research focuses on novel mathematical modeling and computational advances for medical and biomedical investigations, developing realistic mathematical models, algorithmic strategies and clinical decision-support systems to help analyze large-scale biological, DNA\/genomic and clinical data. Her medical\/biomedical research includes novel pattern recognition and classification algorithms for early disease diagnosis and prediction, target therapeutic intervention and disease monitoring; analysis of clinical treatment modalities and design of optimal and combination treatment regimens, and drug delivery for cancer; and health care outcome analysis and development of prediction rules for treatment effectiveness, and design of improved treatment regimens. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 1996, Lee received the NSF CAREER Young Investigator Award for research on integer programming and parallel algorithms. She was the recipient of the prestigious Whitaker Foundation Biomedical Grant for Young Investigators in 2000 for her work on novel biological imaging and combined optimal treatment for prostate cancer. She is the first industrial engineering researcher to receive this award. She also received an NSF Information Technology Research Award for her work on computational advances for cancer therapeutics in 2003. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EShe has received six patents on innovative medical systems and devices, one of which is currently under FDA review for approval for clinical use in the treatment of prostate cancer. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELee received her undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Computer Science with highest distinction from Hong Kong Baptist University. She received her Ph.D degree in Computational and Applied Mathematics from Rice University in 1993. After graduation, she spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow in the NSF Center for Parallel Computation, and in 1995, she was an NSF\/NATO postdoctoral fellow in Scientific Computing at Konrad-Zuse Zentrum Informationstechnik Berlin.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2006-01-24 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:08","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-01-24T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2006-01-24T00:00:00-05:00","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":""}},"59969":{"#nid":"59969","#data":{"type":"news","title":"The Logistics Institute (TLI) Receives Grant from The UPS Foundation","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Logistics Institute (TLI), a unit of the School of Industrial and Systems\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  Engineering at Georgia Tech, received a $150,000 grant from The UPS Foundation,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  the charitable arm of UPS (NYSE:UPS).  The grant will be used to continue the \u003Cstrong\u003EUPS\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  Global Logistics Program\u003C\/strong\u003E at Georgia Tech.  Through the \u003Cstrong\u003EUPS\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  Global Logistics Program\u003C\/strong\u003E over the past eight years, TLI has established\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  relationships and is conducting research and educational programs in Singapore,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  South Africa and China.  In October 2005, TLI co-sponsored the first Sino-U.S.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  Global Logistics Forum in Shanghai, China and established a partnership with\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  Shanghai Jiao Tong University.  \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;Over the past fifteen years UPS has been TLI\u0027s most consistent and generous\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  financial supporter.  UPS funding has been a key factor in the growth of Georgia\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  Tech\u0027s global programs in logistics,\u0026quot; said Professor Don Ratliff, Executive\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  Director of TLI.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEstablished in 1951 and based in Atlanta, Georgia, The UPS Foundation identifies\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  specific areas where its backing clearly impacts social issues. In support\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  of this strategic approach, the UPS Foundation has identified literacy, hunger\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  relief, and volunteerism as its focus areas.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 2004, the UPS Foundation distributed nearly $40 million worldwide through\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  grants that benefit organizations or programs such as the UPS Global Logistics\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  Program at Georgia Tech and provide support for building stringer communities.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;Giving back to the communities is an important part of UPS\u0027s culture that\u0027s\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  embraced by our employees through volunteerism, making donations and sharing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  their intellectual capital,\u0026quot; said Evern Cooper Epps, president of The UPS Foundation\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  and vice president of UPS corporate relations. \u0026quot;Together with nonprofit partners\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  such as TLI, we work to make a positive impact on the lives of people in need.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2006-01-24 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:08","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-01-24T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2006-01-24T00:00:00-05:00","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":""}},"59967":{"#nid":"59967","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech School of Industrial and Systems Engineering Receives $20 Million Commitment","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EATLANTA (March 3, 2006) \u0026mdash; Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Industrial\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        and Systems Engineering (ISyE), ranked No. 1 in the country for the past\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        15 years by \u003Cem\u003EU.S. News and World Report\u003C\/em\u003E, has received a commitment\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        of $20 million from Georgia Tech alumnus H. Milton Stewart and his wife\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n      Carolyn Stewart.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe commitment establishes a permanent endowment, the income from which\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        will be available for unrestricted use within ISyE.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe school has been named the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        and Systems Engineering in recognition of the Stewarts\u0027 commitment.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        ISyE becomes the fourth named school in the Georgia Tech College of Engineering,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        joining the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, the\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering and the Wallace H.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        University.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The opportunities presented by a commitment of this magnitude\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        are nothing short of amazing,\u0022 said Chelsea C. \u0022Chip\u0022 White\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        III, the H. Milton and Carolyn J. Stewart School Chair in ISyE. \u0022I\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        look forward to working with our faculty, staff, and administration in\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        determining how these funds can best be used to build upon the school\u0027s\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        long tradition of innovation, research and educational excellence, and\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        academic leadership.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe highly visible \u003Cem\u003EU.S. News \u0026amp; World Report\u003C\/em\u003E college rankings\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        have placed ISyE in the nation\u0027s number one slot in industrial\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        and manufacturing engineering for 16 of the past 17 years. The Stewart\u0027s\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        commitment will be instrumental in helping the school maintain and increase\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        its national prominence. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022You can\u0027t have the nation\u0027s No. 1 ISyE program\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        for fifteen years running without strong private, philanthropic support\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        from alumni and friends, corporations, and foundations,\u0022  said\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        College of Engineering Dean Don P. Giddens.  \u0022Sustaining the unparalleled\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        quality of the school\u0027s research programs and the excellence of\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        its faculty and student body takes ongoing, significant investment. We\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        are very fortunate that Milt Stewart has always understood that need\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        and offered his wholehearted support of ISyE.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to a gift of $2.5 million that has already been made, the\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        Stewarts\u0027 commitment consists of two charitable remainder annuity\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        trusts totaling $7.5 million that have recently been established and\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        a third charitable remainder annuity trust of $10 million that will be\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        established in the near future. The Stewarts will receive income from\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        the trusts until December 2015, when the trust assets will be transferred\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        to the endowment, whose estimated value will be at least $20 million.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We were thrilled seven years ago when they created the first\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        school chair in Georgia Tech history, a visionary step that helped secure\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        the finest leadership available for the School,\u0022 said Georgia Tech\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        President Wayne Clough. \u0022Now, with this wonderfully generous commitment,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        Milt and Carolyn have ensured the ongoing momentum and prestige of the\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        school they love so much for many years to come.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EStewart has a long history of philanthropy at Georgia Tech. He established\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        the H. Milton Stewart Endowment Fund for ISyE Programs in 1995 and the\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        H. Milton and Carolyn J. Stewart School Chair in ISyE in 1999. He has\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        supported scholarships for women students coming to Georgia Tech from\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        Habersham High School.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EStewart is retired chairman and CEO of Standard Group Inc., a company\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        he established in 1987 with his sister, Kay Swanson, in Cornelia, Georgia.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        Holdings of the Standard Group at that time included Standard Telephone,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        which Stewart\u0027s father, H. M. Stewart Sr., purchased in 1939. Arkansas-based\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        Alltel purchased Standard Telephone in 1998.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E In\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        addition to receiving his bachelor\u0027s degree in Industrial Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        from Georgia Tech in 1961, Stewart later went on to receive his MBA from\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        Emory University.\u0026nbsp; Stewart is a trustee emeritus of the Georgia\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        Tech Foundation, emeritus member and former chairman of the ISyE Advisory\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        Board, former member of the College of Engineering Advisory Board, and\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        a former president, trustee, and Executive Committee member of the Georgia\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        Tech Alumni Association.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFor more information:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMegan McRainey\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nInstitute Communications and Public Affairs\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Tech\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:megan.mcrainey@icpa.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emegan.mcrainey@icpa.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2006-03-03 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:08","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-03-03T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2006-03-03T00:00:00-05:00","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":""}},"59966":{"#nid":"59966","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Dr. C. John Langley Jr. and Industry Experts Conduct Comprehensive Study Of The Use Of Third-Party Logistics (3PL) Services In The U.S., Europe, And Asia-Pacific","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuring the spring and summer of 2005, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/profile.php?entry=jl307\u0022\u003EDr. C. John Langley Jr.\u003C\/a\u003E from \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.tli.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EThe Logistics Institute at Georgia Tech\u003C\/a\u003E, with industry experts from Capgemini, DHL, and SAP, conducted an extensive study about using 3PL services in North America, Western Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, South Africa and Middle East to examine critical trends and issues among key markets and key customers in the 3PL industry. \u003Cstrong\u003EThe objectives of this study are:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EMeasure the development and growth of the 3PL industry across major  industry segments and across several diverse regions of the world\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ESummarize the current use of 3PL services\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EIdentify customer needs and how well 3PL providers are responding to those needs\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EUnderstand how customers select and manage 3PL providers\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EExamine why customers outsource or elect not to outsource to 3PL providers\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EInvestigate leading topics to provide a strategic assessment of the future of the 3PL industry\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis latest and past reports can not be found at the study\u0027s official site, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/3plstudy.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ehttp:\/\/3plstudy.com\/\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2006-03-13 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:08","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-03-13T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2006-03-13T00:00:00-05:00","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":""}},"59964":{"#nid":"59964","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Program to Halt Pandemics Installed in Georgia","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EATLANTA\u003C\/strong\u003E (April 20, 2006) * Your city has    48 hours to vaccinate every man, woman and child to prevent a dangerous pandemic.   Where do you put the clinics, how many health care workers will you need and   how do you get 2 million people to a finite number of emergency clinics?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe logistics of handling all those panicked people, health care workers,   vaccinations, clinics and forms are dizzying. And while health departments   have plans in place, it\u0027s very difficult to know how well those plans   will perform when time is critical and the minutes needed to move patients   to a large clinic or for a frightened patient to fill out a form could mean   life or death for thousands or millions of people.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E   Now researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a computer program, based on   a clinical model created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention   (CDC), to help U.S. state, city and county health care departments create and   test more efficient plans for treating infectious illness, whether it\u0027s   a natural or man-made outbreak.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E   The program, called RealOpt and created by Dr. Eva Lee, an associate professor   of industrial and systems engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology,   will be installed over the next few months at health departments across the   state of Georgia and health departments in 35 other states have plans   to test the program. While the program is still in the testing phase, it will   soon be available free to any government health department that requests it   from Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E   RealOpt has been tested by the DeKalb County Health Department in Georgia,   and the county ran a very successful anthrax drill last year. Lee used RealOpt   to help DeKalb test and improve its existing bioterror preparedness plan.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E   RealOpt takes the numerous variables associated with a health care department\u0027s   treatment of a very large group of people, and through large-scale simulation   and optimization (even considering variables such as panic and language barriers),   pinpoints the most efficient way to move patients to and through a facility.   Using the program, a health care department can determine the best location   for emergency clinics based on population density and road accessibility, the   most efficient facility layout, the number of health care professionals needed   in certain areas, the number of vaccinations needed and the time it will take   to treat patients.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E   RealOpt can be used to prepare for a possible outbreak, as well as for emergency   re-assignment of health care workers within the clinic and between clinics   during an actual outbreak. By being able to assess preparedness, health departments   will have more a precise estimate of the resources and funds needed to treat   communities before an actual outbreak.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E   In addition to its role in planning, one of RealOpt\u0027s significant advantages   is its ability to process data in real time as the emergency treatment occurs.   As patient flows fluctuate, the program can determine how to reallocate the   facility\u0027s resources in a fraction of a second, sending more doctors   or nurses to one station or more attendants to the paperwork processing area.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E   \u0022Rapid analysis of scenarios not only allows for large-scale planning   and preparedness, but also allows on-the-spot optimization to maintain the   best resource allocation over time,\u0022 Lee said. \u0022As patients enter   and progress through the clinic we can observe the flow and dynamically adjust   the configuration as needed. This is also critical for response to catastrophic   events, for example, if one treatment site collapses.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E   RealOpt also includes an automated facility-layout drawing tool that allows   health care workers to design and analyze their own clinic layout in response   to various emergency situations, such as anthrax, smallpox, flu pandemic or   natural disaster.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E   Lee continues to add to RealOpt\u0027s capabilities, and is currently adding   a disease propagation component to the system. The addition would help to analyze   the disease\u0027s spread within treatment sites and possible ways to halt   or minimize the spread. It will also determine how to redirect patients should   one center need to be quarantined or closed to prevent further spread of a   disease.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2006-04-20 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:03","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-04-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2006-04-20T00:00:00-04:00","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":""}},"59965":{"#nid":"59965","#data":{"type":"news","title":"The 2006 Edition of the Great Package Race is Underway","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn Friday 14 April, we phoned each of UPS, FedEx, and DHL to carry identical   packages to our contacts in:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Col\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EOuagadougou\u003C\/strong\u003E: the capital city of Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta;     in central Africa) \u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003ESplit\u003C\/strong\u003E, Croatia: home of the Palace of Diocletian \u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003ESurabaya\u003C\/strong\u003E, Indonesia: Largest city on East Java \u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E Punta Arenas\u003C\/strong\u003E, Chile: capital of Patagonian Chile and southernmost town     in the world \u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ol\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe packages have been picked up and are now en route. You can follow the   race and (eventually) see the final results at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.warehouse-science.com\/package-race\/package-race.html\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.warehouse-science.com\/\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EYou are invited to join the class Thursday 20 April, 9:30-11am in IC205,     when Mark Sobolewski, VP of International Strategy at UPS, will visit ISyE     6202 to discuss issues of international freight and to describe how UPS handled     our packages.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2006-05-18 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:03","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-05-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2006-05-18T00:00:00-04:00","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":""}},"59962":{"#nid":"59962","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Deliverers Race to Shrink World","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECaravans used to ply the world\u0027s trade routes, depositing goods, people, social\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  customs, ideas and religious beliefs along the way.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E It took days, weeks or months.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E It\u0027s much easier now.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E \u0026quot;But we were surprised to learn that it\u0027s not such a flat world after\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  all, Thomas Friedman notwithstanding,\u0026quot; says \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/profile.php?entry=jb61\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  J. Bartholdi\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, coordinator of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.tli.gatech.edu\/whscience\/package-race\/2006\/2006.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  Tech\u0027s annual Great International Package Delivery Race\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Friedman, a New York Times columnist, has argued that the world is \u0026quot;flat\u0026quot;  because\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  the lowering of trade and political barriers, along with technological advances,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  have made it possible to reach billions of people quickly across the globe.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Or, not so flat when you\u0027re delivering the goods.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E \u0026quot;It can be challenging to get a package to Ouagadougou [pronounced Wah-gah-doo-goo],\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  Burkina Faso [West Africa],\u0026quot; says \u003Cstrong\u003EBartholdi\u003C\/strong\u003E of this year\u0027s\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  race, which took place in mid-April. \u003Cstrong\u003EBartholdi\u003C\/strong\u003E and his students\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  annually use UPS, FedEx and DHL to send packages containing Georgia Tech souvenirs\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  such as T-shirts, hats and coffee cups. At the same time, the carriers also\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  raced from Atlanta to Split, the largest city in the Dalmation region of Croatia;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  Surabaya, capital of East Java, Indonesia; and Punta Arenas, capital of the\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  Patagonian region of Chile and one of the world\u0027s southernmost cities. (It\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  recently snowed there.) \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E The package race was started \u0026quot;just for fun\u0026quot; four years ago, says \u003Cstrong\u003EBartholdi\u003C\/strong\u003E,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  a professor of supply chain management. \u0026quot;We do it each spring. At that\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  time I am teaching a graduate program and we have students from all over the\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  world.\u0026quot;  UPS, FedEx and DHL each has its own freight network. Each delivery\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  depends on the construction of the network.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E For example, FedEx won the race to Ouagadougou, delivering its package in\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  five days at a cost of $202.82. The package went from Atlanta to Memphis to\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  Newark, N.J., to Paris and then to Ouagadougou. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E UPS delivered its package in six days at a cost of $202.47. It went from\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  Atlanta to Hapeville to Louisville, Ky.; Philadelphia; Paris; Abidjan, Ivory\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  Coast; then to Ouagadougou. The package was delayed in Abidjan because a scheduled\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  flight was canceled. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E DHL delivered its package nine days later at a cost of $165.02. It went from\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  Atlanta to Wilmington, Ohio; New York; Cologne, Germany; Brussels, Belgium;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  Lagos, Nigeria, then to Ouagadougou. The package sat in Ouagadougou for several\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  days before delivery. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E DHL said the address was inadequate, according to \u003Cstrong\u003EBartholdi\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E The results have been pretty consistent over the years, \u003Cstrong\u003EBartholdi\u003C\/strong\u003E says.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  For example, DHL generally is cheaper. \u0026quot;And among the few packages that\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  we send, one always seems to get missent,\u0026quot; he says. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E That distinction this year went to FedEx. A package destined for Split took\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  10 days to deliver, twice as long as the other carriers. A keying error by\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  the pickup courier was to blame. Instead of inputting HV, the Universal Postal\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  Union Code for Croatia (known by its people as Hrvatska), the courier apparently\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  input CR, the code for Costa Rica. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E UPS won the race to Split, delivering its package in five days, but only\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  three minutes ahead of DHL. UPS also won to Surabaya, arriving there in four\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  days. The others followed a day or two later. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E DHL was the victor to Punta Arenas. Its package arrived in four days, instead\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  of six.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBartholdi\u003C\/strong\u003E says it\u0027s not unreasonable to expect that you can\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  pretty much get a package delivered anywhere in the world in about a week.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  Just make sure the address is sufficient.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;The translation of information from the paper form to the computer resulted\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  in some of our packages enjoying prolonged travel to unexpected places,\u0026quot; says \u003Cstrong\u003EBartholdi\u003C\/strong\u003E,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  chuckling.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPutting international package carriers to the test, logistics professor \u003Cstrong\u003EJohn\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EBartholdi\u003C\/strong\u003E and\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  his colleagues shipped a Georgia Tech T-shirt, hat and coffee cup from the\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  downtown Atlanta campus to four distant points on the globe. Each of the three\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  major carriers won at least one race, though prices varied and the margin of\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  victory was sometimes small -- in one case, three minutes! Snafus included\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  processing errors, especially keying mistakes, and problems with subcontractors.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2006-06-11 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:03","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-06-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2006-06-11T00:00:00-04:00","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":""}},"59963":{"#nid":"59963","#data":{"type":"news","title":"David L. Donoho and Xiaoming Huo answer a few questions about this month\u0027s emerging research front in the field of Mathematics","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca target=\u0022_blank\u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/www.in-cites.com\/a-prod\/esi.html\u0022\u003EEssential Science Indicators\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003Econtains data on Research Fronts (see \u003Ca target=\u0022_blank\u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/www.esi-topics.com\/RFmethodology.html\u0022\u003E Research Front Methodology\u003C\/a\u003E) which are updated every two months. As part of this bimonthly processing, Special   Topics identifies the Research Fronts that are appearing for the first time   in each of the \u003Ca href=\u0022void(0)\u0022\u003E22   major fields covered\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E               by Essential Science Indicators. \u003C\/em\u003EA   new Front consists of core papers not previously included in any prior Front.   We list here the most prominent of this new crop for each of the 22 fields   as determined by the number of core papers they contain and the citations received.   For details on the core papers and other statistical characteristics of each   Front, see the Research Fronts section of the \u003Cem\u003EEssential Science Indicators\u003C\/em\u003E from \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scientific.thomson.com\u0022\u003EThomson   Scientific\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca target=\u0022_blank\u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/www.esi-topics.com\/erf\/2006\/june06-Donoho_Huo.html\u0022\u003EClick here to view the article\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E. \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2006-06-12 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:03","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-06-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2006-06-12T00:00:00-04:00","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":""}},"59961":{"#nid":"59961","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ants\u0027 Efficiency Inspires Supply Chain Experts","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat do ants and workers at Subway have in common?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E A method of efficiently coordinating the transfer of food. In the case of\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  ants, it\u0027s moving food to the nest. In the case of Subway workers, it\u0027s quickly\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  delivering custom-made sandwiches to hungry customers. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Both employ \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.tli.gatech.edu\/%7Ejjb\/bucket-brigades.html\u0022\u003Ebucket\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n    brigades\u003C\/a\u003E. Workers hand off food one to another, much like firefighters\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n    once did with buckets of water to extinguish a blaze before pumps were invented. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E It\u0027s an incredibly efficient -- yet simple -- way of moving goods, one that\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  businesses are adopting to help improve their supply chains and their bottom\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  lines. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Executives at businesses such as Subway or CVS might never have bored into\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  anthills for business lessons before they met \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/profile.php?entry=jb61\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  J. Bartholdi III\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EBartholdi\u003C\/strong\u003E is director of Georgia Tech\u0027s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.tli.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ELogistics\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n    Institute\u003C\/a\u003E, founded in 1992 to provide cutting-edge research in the field. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E The businesses sought out \u003Cstrong\u003EBartholdi\u003C\/strong\u003E, along with a former\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  graduate student, Don Eisenstein, for their insight and got a nature lesson\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  in the process. Though ant-watching may seem quirky, \u003Cstrong\u003EBartholdi\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0027s\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  and Eisenstein\u0027s ideas are based on mathematics and observations of workers\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  on assembly and distribution lines, as well as the activities of social insects\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  adept at organizing themselves. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E \u0026quot;In an ant colony, there are thousands of workers, but nobody is in\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  charge,\u0026quot;  says \u003Cstrong\u003EBartholdi\u003C\/strong\u003E, who collects ants from around\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  the world with a hand lens and tweezers, putting them into vials of alcohol. \u0026quot;There\u0027s\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  no management, no consultants, no IT department. And yet they manage to allocate\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  workers to tasks so that the overall organization supports the survival of\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  the colony.\u0026quot; \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Efficient supply chains are important with the growing geographical distances\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  between production and consumption. \u0026quot;That\u0027s why the shirt I\u0027m wearing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  was sewn in Pakistan from cotton that was grown in Texas but was purchased\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  from a Target in Atlanta and at a cheaper cost than a shirt 20 years ago,\u0026quot; says \u003Cstrong\u003EBartholdi\u003C\/strong\u003E,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  who returns this week from South Africa, where he lectured on supply chains\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  at the University of Stellenbosch in Cape Town. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E \u0026quot;Georgia Tech is really in the forefront of international education,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  particularly in topics like logistics, which is an international activity,\u0026quot; says \u003Cstrong\u003EBartholdi\u003C\/strong\u003E,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  who lectured in Panama last month. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Combining that worldview and his penchant for the offbeat, \u003Cstrong\u003EBartholdi\u003C\/strong\u003E coordinates \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.tli.gatech.edu\/whscience\/package-race\/2006\/2006.html\u0022\u003EGeorgia\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n    Tech\u0027s annual Great International Package Delivery Race\u003C\/a\u003E. The competition\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n    involves sending packages via DHL, FedEx and UPS to the far corners of the\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n    world to see which firm gets to each destination first -- and to study why\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n    the runners-up do not. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E But aside from globalization, businesses want to improve operations for competitive\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  reasons and to bolster profits. They want to get goods to customers at the\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  right time, at the right point, in the right condition and at the lowest cost.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  Wal-Mart, for example, is testing the use of radio frequency identification\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  tags in tracking the shipment of perishable items, such as fruit, with the\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  aim of ensuring that when they are sold in stores, they aren\u0027t overripe and\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  have to be discounted or discarded. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Transportation companies, such as Sandy Springs-based United Parcel Service,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  have moved beyond shipping and into the logistics business to boost their revenue\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  and profits. They now warehouse inventory for customers, fulfill orders and\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  inspect, repackage and label merchandise. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Last month, for example, Philips Electronics hired UPS to do just that for\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  customers of its medical systems division in 50 countries. Those customers\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  can now get critical parts faster -- the same day, as opposed to the next business\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  day. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E Fixing bugs in the system \u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Bucket brigades are especially useful in labor-intensive distribution warehouses.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  Drugstore giant CVS was among the first to test \u003Cstrong\u003EBartholdi\u003C\/strong\u003E and\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  Eisenstein\u0027s idea, inspired, in part, by a species of ant, messor barbarus. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E The smallest, slowest of these ants forage out farthest, and carry seed back\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  toward the nest. Larger, faster ants wrest the seed from the smaller ants,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  toting it home. The smaller ants return to collect more seed. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E \u0026quot;So you have exactly the bucket brigade organization in which the work\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  is passed from slower to faster workers,\u0026quot; says \u003Cstrong\u003EBartholdi\u003C\/strong\u003E,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  who has about 100 ants on display on bookshelves at his home in Morningside.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  (A bucket brigade simulation is available at www2.isye.gatech.edu\/~jjb\/bucket-brigades.html) \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E CVS used to put the fastest worker in the first position on the line to pick\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  merchandise to fill orders. That resulted in bottlenecks. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E \u0026quot;He was picking faster than anybody downstream,\u0026quot; says \u003Cstrong\u003EBartholdi\u003C\/strong\u003E,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  who is the Manhattan Associates professor of supply chain management at Georgia\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  Tech\u0027s School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. The fastest worker would\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  get stuck behind a slower worker and could only pick at the same speed as the\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  slower worker. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E The solution: Move the fastest worker to the end of the line. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E \u0026quot;Under bucket brigades, whenever the fastest worker completes work,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  he goes back to get more work,\u0026quot; \u003Cstrong\u003EBartholdi\u003C\/strong\u003E says. \u0026quot;This\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  triggers a sequence in which each worker gives up work to the faster worker\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  and walks back to get work from a slower worker. The slowest worker starts\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  another order. They are at the beginning of the chain.\u0026quot; \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Workers prefer this because it accounts for differences in ability and differences\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  in customer orders, according to \u003Cstrong\u003EBartholdi\u003C\/strong\u003E and Eisenstein,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  who now is a professor of operations management at the University of Chicago. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E \u0026quot;When workers were assigned to a fixed zone in the line, they felt isolated\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  and under pressure,\u0026quot; \u003Cstrong\u003EBartholdi\u003C\/strong\u003E says. \u0026quot;Working in\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  bucket brigades, they felt like a team. And the punchline of this story is\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  that CVS measured a 34 percent increase in productivity, and this cost them\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  nothing to implement.\u0026quot; \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E Don\u0027t hold the mayo \u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Subway\u0027s challenge was to keep everybody busy on the line assembling sandwiches\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  that are all different and therefore require varying amounts of work. \u0026quot;The\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  most visible problem is you have the cashier at the end available, but all\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  of the waiting customers are at the start of the assembly line,\u0026quot; \u003Cstrong\u003EBartholdi\u003C\/strong\u003E says. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Subway tried having the last worker circle back around to the start. But\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  this required space to pass. And it guaranteed that no one could move faster\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  than the slowest worker. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E \u0026quot;Bucket brigades turn out to be a very natural solution because it divides\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  the work not based on average task times -- which are meaningless because different\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  sandwiches are being assembled -- but on how long it actually took to spread\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  the mayonnaise on that last sandwich,\u0026quot; \u003Cstrong\u003EBartholdi\u003C\/strong\u003E says. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E So the person putting on the mayonnaise for one sandwich may not necessarily\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  be the one putting on the mayonnaise for the next sandwich. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E \u0026quot;A bucket brigade is dynamic,\u0026quot; says Craig Tovey, professor of industrial\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  and systems engineering and computer science at Georgia Tech and a colleague\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  of \u003Cstrong\u003EBartholdi\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0027s.  \u0026quot;It is constantly adjusting itself to\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  the work at hand.\u0026quot; \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E Boundless curiosity \u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EBartholdi\u003C\/strong\u003E, 59, is dynamic as well, constantly on the prowl\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  for ideas to solve problems. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E \u0026quot;Like any academic, I have many things that I find fascinating that\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  I\u0027m working on that nobody else does, at least for a while,\u0026quot; says \u003Cstrong\u003EBartholdi\u003C\/strong\u003E,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  a Navy veteran who spent two tours of duty in and around Vietnam.  \u0026quot;It\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  takes some time for these ideas to reach maturity.\u0026quot; \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E For example, \u003Cstrong\u003EBartholdi\u003C\/strong\u003E and a former colleague, Loren Platzman,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  used mathematical objects of curiosity -- spacefilling curves -- to devise\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  more efficient routes for Fulton County\u0027s Meals on Wheels program, which delivers\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  hundreds of meals daily to shut-ins. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E \u0026quot;We estimated it shortened the routes by at least 13 percent, which\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  meant they needed one fewer vehicle,\u0026quot; \u003Cstrong\u003EBartholdi\u003C\/strong\u003E says. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E What\u0027s next on the horizon? \u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EBartholdi\u003C\/strong\u003E wants to figure out how cost savings can be shared\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  equitably along all of the nodes of a supply chain. Otherwise businesses might\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  not have an immediate incentive to collaborate to make improvements, figuring\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  the benefits might be realized downstream in a different company. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E \u0026quot;Those methods typically have to satisfy some notions of fairness and\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  transparency,\u0026quot; \u003Cstrong\u003EBartholdi\u003C\/strong\u003E says. \u0026quot;And they must be\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  resistant to manipulation. They must be practical.\u0026quot; \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Is there something in nature that can provide answers? \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E \u0026quot;I hadn\u0027t thought of that before,\u0026quot; says \u003Cstrong\u003EBartholdi\u003C\/strong\u003E. \u0026quot;Wow!\u0026quot; \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E THE \u003Cstrong\u003EBARTHOLDI\u003C\/strong\u003E FILE \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E \u0026bull; Born: January 1947, San Diego \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E \u0026bull;  Education: Bachelor\u0027s, master\u0027s in math, Ph.D. in industrial and\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  systems engineering, University of Florida. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E \u0026bull;  Family: Wife, Marian Burge, deputy director, Atlanta Legal Aid Society;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  son, Gabriel, 18, student, French Culinary Institute, New York. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E \u0026bull;  Collects: Photos of badly designed elevator panels. One of the worst\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  is in the South parking deck at Piedmont Hospital, with each floor associated\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  with no fewer than four separate buttons. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E \u0026bull; Also collects ants. \u0026quot;The era of big-game hunting is long gone.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  But collecting ants also has its element of danger. Some ants bite, some ants\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  sting, and some do both. So you pick them up with tweezers, being careful not\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  to crush them.\u0026quot; A favorite is the leafcutter ant, found in his backyard. \u0026quot;They\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  harvest growing vegetation, bring it back to their nests, chew it up and then\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  regurgitate it as a substrate on which to grow fungus. The fungus is the food\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  that nourishes the colony.\u0026quot; \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E \u0026bull; In his office: Magic tricks and puzzles. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E \u0026bull; What most people don\u0027t know: As a young adult, he studied ballet and\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  tap dance. \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2006-06-18 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:03","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-06-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2006-06-18T00:00:00-04:00","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":""}},"59960":{"#nid":"59960","#data":{"type":"news","title":"H. Milton Stewart Honored With Presidents Award from Institute of Industrial Engineers","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENorcross, Georgia: Milton Stewart was honored as one of five recipients of the Presidents Award by the Institute of Industrial Engineers. The Presidents Award, new for 2006, is bestowed on those who have made significant commitments to leading industrial engineering programs that have resulted in named industrial engineering departments. These  significant contributions enhance the profession as well as heighten awareness and improve public understanding of the value of industrial engineering to contemporary society.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EStewart\u0027s has made a lifelong commitment to his alma mater Georgia Tech, supporting many programs and establishing the H. Milton Stewart Endowment Fund for ISyE Programs (Industrial and Systems Engineering). The  school named the department in his honor.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EStewart is retired chairman and CEO of Standard Group Inc and has served on various advisory boards and councils. Stewart also has an MBA from Emory University. Stewart is the retired chairman and CEO of Standard Group, Inc, in Cornelia, Georgia.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2006-07-03 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:03","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-07-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2006-07-03T00:00:00-04:00","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":""}},"59959":{"#nid":"59959","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Ph.D. IE Candidate Awarded John L. Imhoff Scholarship by Institute of Industrial Engineers","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENorcross (Metro Atlanta), Georgia. Evren Ozkaya, Ph.D. candidate in the Georgia\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  Institute of Technology, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering has been\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  awarded the John L. Imhoff Scholarship for his excellence in academic and professional\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  achievement and dedication to the industrial engineering profession by the\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  Institute of Industrial Engineers. Ozkaya is the first recipient of this distinguished\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  scholarship.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEvren stands out among the crowd of research and professorial assistants in\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  that he can see the global application of process improvement. His research\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  and contributions span Asia, the United States and Europe. He has worked on\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  cost reduction, supply chain management, logistics and RFID (Radio Frequency\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  ID) programs in all three countries, excelling in each area. Evren combines\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  community work with organizations such as UNICEF, practical research inside\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  major corporations with teaching. He organized international seminars, a case\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  study tournament, and a career project for the \u0022European Students of Industrial\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  Engineering and Management\u0022 association comprised of 66 universities in 22\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  countries as a means of promoting the profession. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHe is currently a Teaching Assistant of \u0022Supply Chain Modeling:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  Manufacturing and Warehousing\u0022 class at Georgia Tech. His references for this\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  award pointed out Evren\u0027s dedication, motivation and initiative, stating his \u0022leadership\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  and organizational skills are remarkably fine tuned.\u0022  He was referred to as\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  an \u0022ambassador for expanding the impact of industrial engineers worldwide\u0022. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEvren holds his undergraduate degree from Bilkent University in Turkey where\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  he placed 54th among 1.5 million students. He completed his Masters at Georgia\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  Tech and is in process of completing his Ph.D.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  program at Georgia Tech. IIE is proud that Evren was nominated and selected\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  for this award because he exemplifies the qualities that the late John L. Imhoff\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  desired to honor with this scholarship. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIIE is the world\u0027s largest professional society dedicated solely to the support\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  of the industrial engineering profession and other individuals involved with\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  improving quality, processes and productivity in all industry segments. Founded\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  in 1948, IIE is an international, non-profit association that provides leadership\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  for the application, education, training, research, and development of industrial\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  engineering processes and tools. \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iienet.org\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ewww.iienet.org\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n  IIE also has a student chapter at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2006-07-27 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:03","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-07-27T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2006-07-27T00:00:00-04:00","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":""}},"59958":{"#nid":"59958","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ISyE Alumnus Forms Team Buzzz to Support Atlanta Breast Cancer 3-Day Walk","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Breast Cancer 3-Day in Atlanta will start on Friday morning, October 20th   and end with Closing Ceremonies on Sunday afternoon, October 22nd. Thousands   of walkers will cover about 20 miles a day, traveling at their own pace. The   walkers will be supported by hundreds of volunteer crew members who will provide   meals, water and snack stops, gear transport, hot showers, portable restrooms,   safety on the streets, and comprehensive medical services.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn order to participate, each walker must train for the event and must commit   to raising a minimum of $2,200 (many walkers will raise more than the minimum).   To help prepare for the Breast Cancer 3-Day, each walker is supported by coaches   who assist in all aspects of training and fundraising. Clinics, meetings, training   sessions, and mailings provide ongoing support. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAll Georgia Tech faculty, staff, students, and alumni are encouraged to either   join Team Buzzz or form their own team. Please contact Ramel at \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:nadya.ramel@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Enadya.ramel@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E,   or 404.894-2321 for more information about Team Buzzz.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThose wishing to help Ramel reach her goal can make a donation directly to   her donation page online at \u003Ca target=\u0022_blank\u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/www.The3Day.org\/Atlanta06\/nadyaz\u0022\u003Ewww.The3Day.org\/Atlanta06\/nadyaz\u003C\/a\u003E.   To learn more about the Breast Cancer 3-Day, or to serve as a volunteer, visit \u003Ca target=\u0022_blank\u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/www.The3Day.org\u0022\u003Ewww.The3Day.org\u003C\/a\u003E or   call (800) 996-3DAY.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2006-08-22 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:03","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-08-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2006-08-22T00:00:00-04:00","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":""}},"59957":{"#nid":"59957","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Paul Kvam Selected as Fellow of the American Statistical Association","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EALEXANDRIA, VA\u003C\/em\u003E- The American Statistical Association (ASA)    today announced the election of 60 of its members as Fellows of the Association,    in recognition of outstanding professional contribution to and leadership in    the field of statistical science. [Among the elected members is Paul Kvam, Professor of Statistics in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.]  The designation of Fellow has been a superlative    honor in the society for over nine decades. The Fellows will be presented at    a ceremony at the Association\u0027s 166th annual Joint Statistical Meetings, taking    place August 6-10, 2006, in Seattle. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAccording to ASA By-Laws, each year, the Committee on Fellows can only elect    one-third of one percent of the total ASA membership. In order to be honored    with the title of Fellow, members must have an established reputation and have    made outstanding contributions in some aspect of statistical work. \u0022Becoming    an ASA Fellow is one of the highest honors in our profession,\u0022 said Sallie    Keller-McNulty, President of the ASA. \u0022This year\u0027s set of new ASA Fellows    represent a superb cross section of our members who have strengthened the statistical    sciences discipline through their outstanding achievements in education and    research, and through their unselfish commitments to the service of our profession.\u0022  \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAttached is a list of this year\u0027s honorees, including their names and affiliations [see \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.amstat.org\/pressroom\/index.cfm?fuseaction=2006fellows\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.amstat.org\/pressroom\/index.cfm?fuseaction=2006fellows\u003C\/a\u003E for the complete list].    The Committee on Fellows evaluates candidates\u0027 contributions to the advancements    of statistics, giving due weight to publications, the positions held by the    candidates in the organizations in which they are employed, activities within    the Association, membership and attainments in other societies, and other professional    activities. The case for each candidate is judged individually, with no one    of these criteria govern selection to the exclusion of the others. Selection    committee members were Elizabeth M. Halloran, Demissie Alemayehu, Robert M.    Bell, Donald Guthrie, Roderick J. Little, Bonnie K. Ray, Nozer D. Singpurwalla,    Robert T. Smythe, and Grace L. Yang. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E For additional information, please contact the American Statistical Association    at (703) 684-1221, or visit the ASA Web site at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.amstat.org\/\u0022\u003Ewww.amstat.org\u003C\/a\u003E.    To receive a press release, including official citation, on a specific Fellow,    contact Jeanene Harris at the ASA.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThanks to the ASA for this article.  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Optimization improves the treatment by helping meet physician-set constraints for consistent radiation doses to tumor cells * while minimizing effects on nearby structures.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUsed for treating prostate cancer and other forms of the disease, the new system is based on complex numerical optimization algorithms licensed from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Beyond improving the overall treatment, the new system dramatically reduces the time required for planning the seed placement.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Panther* Brachy InversePlan system, announced by Prowess, Inc. at the annual meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology, improves local tumor control by more consistently focusing radiation while reducing the number of radioactive seeds and needles used. Because the treatment planning can now be done in less than a minute * compared to hours with older systems * planning can be done just prior to seed implantation. That eliminates an extra clinical visit and ensures that the plan is based on the dimensions of the tumor and organ at the time of implantation.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022From the clinical side, this is a significant advance in being able to treat prostate cancer with fewer side effects while providing better local tumor control,\u0022 said Eva Lee, a mathematician and associate professor in Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. \u0022From the clinician\u0027s point of view, this will allow physicians to prescribe how they want the radiation to be applied, and the system will produce an optimized plan to do that. The system will produce a better outcome, reduce the amount of time required to design the plan, and allow patients to recover more quickly.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe optimization algorithms developed by Lee and colleague Marco Zaider at the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York account for numerous factors, including the dose provided by each radioactive seed, shape of the organ being treated, location of tumor cells within the organ, location of critical structures for which radiation dose should be limited, sensitivity of tissues to radiation, and expected shrinkage of the organ after treatment. The goals are to provide consistent tumor-killing radiation doses to the tumor cells while limiting potentially damaging doses to nearby critical structures, such as the urethra, bladder and rectum. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEarlier computer-aided techniques for determining the best locations to place the seeds required many hours of planning, and could not optimize for specific doses specified by physicians. Because so much time was required to plan the treatment, patients had to make two clinic visits * one to obtain information for planning the treatment and a second to actually implant the seeds. Because the size and shape of the prostate can change over time, the time between planning and implantation allowed the creation of potential inaccuracies that could reduce the tumor control and cause side effects.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This system can be used in real time,\u0022 said Lee. \u0022The patient can come in, the imaging is done, and we can then do the planning and implantation right away. There is no delay between the imaging, planning and implantation of the seeds.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBecause the system can quickly re-optimize the placement plan, changes can be made quickly while the patient is on the operating table to account for difficulties in placing seeds, Lee noted.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EJohn Nguyen, president of Prowess, said the new system gives physicians better control over radiation doses while reducing the time required to treat each patient.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Physicians can now really impose clinical criteria within the planning process,\u0022 he said. \u0022Further, the system is extraordinarily fast, requiring only seconds to design an optimal plan. Having a system so fast means physicians can dynamically adjust and re-optimize the treatment plans as they insert needles. This was impossible to do before.\u0022 \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe new software should help clinics provide more consistent cancer treatment that does not depend solely on the skills of the treating physicians.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Right now, the planning varies from physician to physician even though the end goal is the same,\u0022 he noted. \u0022Using this system, they can test out different options, varying the dose constraints to see in minutes if they can come up with a better plan. Such a system will help standardize treatment.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EProwess will add the new algorithms to treatment planning systems it already has in operation at more than 700 clinics in the United States.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe patented system is based on optimization techniques known as mixed integer programming. It was licensed to Prowess in 2004 and converted to a commercial product after clinical trials of more than 100 patients demonstrated its effectiveness at improving treatment plans. The system runs on high-end personal computers.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBeyond prostate cancer therapy, the mixed-integer algorithms can also be used to optimize radioactive seed and external beam radiation treatment for a broad range of other cancers. With support from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health and Whitaker Foundation, Lee has also been working with specialists on improving treatments for breast, lung, cervical, brain and liver cancers.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Once the optimization has been determined, we can use this in many different applications and it works very well for improving local tumor control,\u0022 she said. \u0022I feel really good about seeing this applied in the clinic to improve treatment to patients.\u0022 \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office \u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology \u003Cbr \/\u003E75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 100 \u003Cbr \/\u003EAtlanta, Georgia  30308\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contacts\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon (404-894-6986); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or Jane Sanders (404-894-2214); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jsanders@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejsanders@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E). \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETechnical Contact\u003C\/strong\u003E: Eva Lee (404-894-4962); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:eva.lee@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eeva.lee@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E). \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2006-11-27 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:03","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-11-27T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2006-11-27T00:00:00-05:00","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":""}}}