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Part 8: What We Need to Know About Smart Automation: Its impact on society

The future of smart automation will be determined by a series of human choices. As consumers, business leaders or citizens, we all get a say in what our future will be.

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ReCAP

Read our Q&A with Josh Zimmerman, data and operations research scientist at Principal Financial Group.

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Inside Story

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Artificial intelligence: help or hype?

Will AI ultimately help or harm? Humans, the ultimate machine, will decide.

Analyze This!

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Storytelling: True tales from my life experiences

Column author Vijay Mehrotra uses storytelling as a fun hobby but it is also an increasingly important part of what he does at work as a professor of MBA courses at the University of San Francisco. Effective storytelling is a critical part of the job description of advanced analytics professionals, and here's a story about why.

Healthcare Analytics

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Smarter healthcare ushering in promise of longevity

As people live longer owing to the advent of genomic, data-driven, personalized diagnosis and therapy combined with advancement of biotechnology that is focused on slowing down the aging process overall, new technology and financial services would be required to be developed that would be consumed by this group of people and their family members around the globe.

INFORMS Activities

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Revamping the CAP Exam: An In-Depth Look at the Process and Why It’s Important

INFORMS recently announced a revamp of the Certified Analytics Professional (CAP®) exam for those pursuing their certification, which will launch April 1 and will be available at all of the program’s Kryterion Test Centers. Fear not, the foundational elements of the CAP exam will remain the same.

Conference Preview

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Valuable content, dynamic analytics speakers destined for Denver

The 2020 INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics and Operations Research will be held April 26-28 in Denver. The conference will bring together more than a thousand leading analytics and industry professionals to share ideas, network and learn about the possibilities that can be generated by analytics. Attendees from more than 400 companies and virtually all industries (plus some from academia and government) will convene to hear 150 carefully selected talks from leading analytics practitioners.

Five-Minute Analyst

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Virtual Servants

Many of the things people used to do as manual labor, full-time jobs in a house – washing dishes, heating the house and cleaning clothes – have now been “outsourced” to what we will now call “virtual servants,” i.e., machines. How do we equate power to work and how much energy is used?

Industry News

Frontline Systems Launches RASON Decision Services V2020 for Microsoft Power Platform

Frontline Systems, developer of the Solver in desktop Microsoft Excel and the RASON Analytics API, has released RASON Decision Services V2020 – a cloud service that enables companies to easily embed “intelligent decisions” in a manual or automated business process, applying business rules and advanced analytics to reduce costs and mitigate risks, in fields ranging from manufacturing and distribution to energy, pharmaceuticals, investment and insurance.

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