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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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New U.S. drug prices doubled amid a shift toward treating rare diseases
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Drugs being explicitly developed to treat rare diseases are getting more expensive.

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Human air traffic controllers keep flyers safe. Should AI have a role?
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Old technology is behind the recent ongoing delays and cancellations at Newark Liberty International Airport, but newer technology will be an important part of the solution.

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Transportation Logistics Expert Sheldon Jacobson on How to Address Variants for Air Travel in 2022

Transportation Logistics Expert Sheldon Jacobson on How to Address Variants for Air Travel in 2022

Audio Clip, December 21, 2021

New audio is available for media use featuring transportation logistics expert Sheldon Jacobson on the impact of new COVID-19 variants’ on air travel for 2022 and what actions need to be taken to address them as they emerge. This content is made available by INFORMS, the largest association for the decision and data sciences. All sound should be attributed to Sheldon Jacobson, founder professor of computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has researched aviation security systems since 1995 and is a prominent member of INFORMS.  

UCLA’s Chris Tang on How the Supply Chain Crisis Can and Should be Addressed in 2022

UCLA’s Chris Tang on How the Supply Chain Crisis Can and Should be Addressed in 2022

Audio Clip, December 17, 2021

New audio is available for media use featuring supply chain expert Chris Tang. He is a Distinguished Professor at UCLA; the Edward W. Carter Chair in Business Administration; Senior Associate Dean, Global Initiatives; and Faculty Director, Center for Global Management. He is also an INFORMS member. INFORMS is the largest association for the decision and data sciences.

What it takes to understand a variant

What it takes to understand a variant

Bdnews.com, December 17, 2021

“We are going to see a couple of weeks of every day, new information, new studies,” said Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, chief scientist at the WHO. “One study is not going to really prove anything.”

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