O.R./Analytics at Work Blog
My mother worked for EPA for almost 20 years, instilling me with a respect for the world around me. The topic of O.R. and the Environment seemed like a natural (weak pun intended) fit. I was struck by the sentence in Patricia Randall’s blog entry, “While I am certain it is possible to include green objectives in a model, I haven’t had a client say ‘Minimize my emissions or my carbon footprint’. Or have I?”
I guess it's time I introduce myself. My name is Kevin Geraghty. I am the new Editor-in-Chief of INFORMS Online, and I'm very excited by the opportunities and direction that INFORMS leadership intends to take our site. One of the more notable recent changes we are adopting for the INFORMS brand is the incorporation of the term ‘Analytics’.
My work in the area of biomass-for-biofuels began as an accident. I had just started working as an assistant professor at Mississippi State University (MSU), and being eager to secure research funding I responded to a call for proposals from the university’s newly founded Sustainable Energy Research Center (SERC). I didn’t get the grant, but...
The last challenge was O.R. and Social Networking, and has become quite the hot topic around the INFORMS office. In August, the INFORMS Board of Directors highlighted social networking in one of their official strategic goals and priorities, which states
For the last few years, I have been dabbling in academic administration, first as Associate Dean for Research and now as Senior Associate Dean, Education here at the Tepper School of Business. While there are frustrations in this position (“There are how many courses not covered?
As we say a final farewell to our favorite Harry Potter characters this summer and return to the land of the Muggles, I have to wonder what these muggles – non-wizardy folks with no magical ability – had to say about the events that were taking place right under their noses.
I’m excited to be seeing you soon at the INFORMS Healthcare conference. It’s amazing that this specialized conference, offered for the first time, features 13-14 parallel tracks. Congratulations to the organizing committee for putting together such a rich schedule. As part of my preparations for leaving, I was looking over the latest travel news and noticed that a computer glitch at United Airlines had led to the stranding of thousands of passengers.
There has been a lot of buzz about the analytics movement here at INFORMS beginning with the Capgemeini study that was completed last fall. The INFORMS Board of Directors have approved funding to build out the executive forum at the rebranded Analytics Conference, as well as developing certification and continuing education programs.
OR-Exchange is a question and answer site on operations research (and analytics). The concept couldn’t be simpler. People ask questions about operations research; people answer questions about operations research. Kinda like the usenet group sci.op-research without the spam...
In preparation for next month’s Healthcare Conference, the theme of the April Blog Challenge was O.R. and Healthcare, and much like the topic itself, our responses were broad. The personal experiences of giving blood or having a baby give an anecdotal need for improvement in how the healthcare system ...
