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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Atlanta, GA | Posted: February 8, 2012
You don't need a crystal ball to create your own NCAA basketball March Madness bracket pool this year. In a recent video posted on YouTube, Joel Sokol, associate professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, discusses how LRMC (Logistic Regression Markov Chain), a computer ranking system, has predicted the outcomes of NCAA tournament games more accurately than other competing ranking systems.
Watch this video to learn more about Sokol’s research and LRMC predictions.