O.R./Analytics at Work Blog
Helping to organize two INFORMS conferences this year, I have been struck by the inability of seasoned OR practitioners, including myself, to secure corporate funding for conference travel. This is true even when...
That the concept of zero and the now widely used, indispensable decimal numeric system (imprecisely called Arabic numerals) came from India is old news -- a piece of trivia circulated often enough to have little or no surprise value. There is more, much more, to ancient Indian mathematics than these iconic contributions.
As general chair of the 2010 INFORMS Conference on O.R. Practice organizing committee, I would like to cordially invite you to attend this year’s conference, April 18 – 20, 2010, in Orlando, Florida. We are quite proud of the program we have put together. It is the event for those engaged in putting our techniques to use.
...The author's thesis is that the era of left-brain dominance is gone and people now need to develop the right side of their brain. Goodbye lawyers, accountants, software engineers; hello designers, inventors, teachers, storytellers. The author lists the following three factors as having contributed to this situation...
The INFORMS Practice meeting coming up in Orlando has an extremely impressive set of methodology tutorials planned. Here is the list: 360i, M. Kevin Geraghty, MS, Vice President, Research & Analytics, on “Marketing in Online Social Spaces.” ...
We had a record (21 inch) snowfall on Friday night, if you consider the 4th biggest snowfall of all time (since the 1860s) a record. Since then, our city seems to be trying to turn this into our own little Katrina, showing very little planning or execution in getting the city back in working...
From a practical standpoint I am an INFORMS member to support the professional society organized around the field I chose to study, practice, and teach. Professional societies...
Dick Lipton of Georgia Tech has a very nice blog on the theory of computation (though it ranges broader than that). He has a fascinating post on “Mathematical Embarrassments”. A “Mathematical Embarrassment” does not refer to the mistaken proof I had in a real analysis course twenty five years ago (that still causes ...
The New York Times Magazine Ideas Issue is a gold mine for a blogger in operations research. Either OR principles are a key part of the idea, or OR principles show why the “idea” is not such a great idea after all. One nice article this week is not part of the “ideas” article...
While the new website in front of you is still work-in-progress, it is worthwhile thinking about where we want it to go. It may not be apparent from the surface that there are Web 2.0 technologies and motivations hidden deep inside the screen. How we want to shape it and drive it is up to all of us as users – that is the opportunity and the responsibility that comes with Web 2.0.
