O.R./Analytics at Work Blog
INFORMS will introduce a new, highly-focused brand of conference in 2011 with a three-day meeting on the health sector, aimed at bringing healthcare researchers and stakeholders together. INFORMS Healthcare 2011 will be held June 20-22, 2011 at the Hilton Bonaventure Hotel in Montreal, Canada.
The strategic planning subcommittee of the 2011 INFORMS Practice Conference Organizing Committee has decided to take steps to re-configure and re-brand the Practice Conference to better serve the emerging business analytics field...
Thank you for being part of another successful year for the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. Some of INFORMS 2010 accomplishments include strong abstract submission for the Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas, which bodes well for very strong attendance...
One of my goals this year is to test out and review several teaching with technology and social networking tools. I will periodically post reviews here. I should preface that the reviews are aimed at higher education professors in STEM fields.
During the course of his lengthy career as a naval officer and now as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen has been bombarded with military intelligence and information – some of it good, some of it useless– but perhaps the worst advice he ever received ...
Doctors can be of all kinds, but the most basic division is between a generalist and a specialist. A generalist is someone who understands the body as a whole while the specialist knows more about a specific part of the body -- the heart, say.
I’m recovering from the end of the semester. I’m looking forward to a return to regular blogging. I’ll start writing about the end of the semester. I decided to have some fun with my stochastic processes final this semester and to write questions about werewolves and Star Wars ...
In October 2008, the INFORMS Board approved development of a “New Initiatives Fund” to provide start-up resources for eligible projects and activities, with particular emphasis on encouraging new INFORMS strategic enhancement efforts to be initiated...
It is that time of the year when our librarian asks us to consider whether or not to continue subscribing to journals. In the past, journals have been identified by “percentage increase” with the idea that those whose increase is high need special attention to determine if they are still valuable. This assumes that we had made good decisions in the past...
Overall I was very satisfied with the Practice conference. Clearly I didn’t attend ALL of the presentations, but I wanted to pitch my nomination for this year’s “Best Of”. If you presented but don’t see your name here – just assume that I must not have attended yours. :) Most Interesting New Idea...
