Press Releases

Huntington Beach, CA, April 18, 2012 – The Tauber Institute for Global Operations at the University of Michigan is the first winner of the UPS George D. Smith Prize, which was presented at a banquet sponsored by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) in Huntington Beach on Monday night.

Huntington Beach, CA, April 17, 2012 – TNT Express, which used operations research to modernize operations and reduce its carbon footprint, won the 2012 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences at a banquet sponsored by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) in Huntington Beach last night.

INFORMS Military Conference Highlights Analytics and Operations Research

Cornell, Lehigh, U of MI

HANOVER, MD, March 15, 2012 – The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS^®) today announced three finalist schools in the competition for the first UPS George D. Smith Prize, an award created to strengthen ties between academia and industry. The award recognizes excellence in preparing students to become practitioners of analytics and operations research.

HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA, March 1, 2011 – The analytics process – the way that business and government organizations collect and analyze data to gain competitive advantage – will be a key focus at a conference hosted by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS^®), the premier organization for advanced analytics professionals.

eBay Analytics VP, Google Chief Economist, World Series of Analytics/Operations Research

HANOVER, MD, January 12, 2012 – The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS^®) today announced the six finalist organizations that will compete for the 2012 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences, a prize for excellence in advanced analytics, in Huntington Beach, California later this year.

HANOVER, MD, December 19, 2011 – The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®) today announced the award of the Daniel H. Wagner Prize by CPMS, the association’s Practice Section, to a team from Intel. The winners used analytics and operations research to optimize the design and scheduling of the major chip maker’s vast product line so as to have the right products at the right time for customers while efficiently managing resources and costs.

HANOVER, MD, December 14, 2011 – The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS^®) today announced the award of the INFORMS Decision Analysis Society Frank P. Ramsey Medal to Dr. Don N. Kleinmuntz, President and co-founder of Strata Decision Technology, a market leading provider of web-based financial analytics and performance management software tools used primarily by U.S. hospitals and health systems to enhance their financial planning, budgeting, and reporting processes.

Real-Life Math for Crime Fighting, Buying a Used Car at INFORMS Charlotte Annual Meeting/Teacher Program

CHARLOTTE, October 31, 2010 – A special program for Charlotte-area high school math teachers is the latest contribution in a national initiative to improve applied math that has seen North Carolina universities and school systems take the lead in making America more competitive in math and science.

CHARLOTTE, October 10, 2010 – When 4,000 experts in everything from greening America’s energy to reducing crowded emergency rooms come to Charlotte on November 13, the city will find itself deluged not only by experts who use analytics for a living but also problem solvers who tackle America’s greatest challenges.

Preventing 8 Million Infections and 70,000 Deaths

HANOVER, MD, July 26, 2011 – With hepatitis B infecting as many as 10% of people of Asian descent, operations researchers collaborated with a liver transplant surgeon to develop mathematical models that verified the cost effectiveness of hepatitis B interventions. These interventions now successfully screen, treat, and vaccinate millions of Asian and Pacific Islander adults in the U.S. and millions of children in China, according to a paper in a journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS^®).

HANOVER, MD, July 21, 2011 – In the wake of the devastating Japanese tsunami, the 2010 Haitian earthquake, and the recent threat of pandemic flu, a new issue of the journal Interfaces: The INFORMS Journal on the Practice of Operations Research is dedicated to improving responses to disasters, health crises, and acute public issues, according to the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS^®).

HANOVER, MD, July 21, 2011 – Operations research models developed by a team at the Georgia Institute of Technology helped CARE International pick three locations worldwide to supply relief quickly to victims of earthquakes, floods, and other natural disasters, according to a paper in a journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS^®).

Test Group Contrasts Privacy When Buying Batteries, Sex Toys

HANOVER, MD, July 11, 2011 – Online consumers thought to be motivated primarily by savings are, in fact, often willing to pay a premium for purchases from online vendors with clear, protective privacy policies, according to a new study in the current issue of a journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS^®).

MONTREAL, June 14, 2011 – Patients posting their opinions about doctors on online ratings websites are much less likely to discuss physicians with low perceived quality and are more prone than offline populations to exaggerate their opinions, according to a paper being presented at a healthcare conference sponsored by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS^®).

HANOVER, MD, June 1, 2011- The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS^®) and Military Operations Research Society (MORS) today commended the U.S. Defense Department Board Task Force on Defense Intelligence for a report recommending, in part, that operations research (O.R.) and advanced analytics methods be harnessed to improve counterinsurgency in Afghanistan and other theaters.

LOS ANGELES, May 5, 2011- The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS^®) today congratulated Jack Levis, Director of Process Management at UPS, who led his team at UPS to win the coveted Gartner Business Intelligence Excellence Award.

First INFORMS Conference in Healthcare Operations, Decision-Making, Informatics

MONTREAL, May 4, 2011 – The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) will host its first conference on healthcare in Montreal this June. INFORMS Healthcare 2011 takes place at the Hilton Bonaventure Hotel in Montréal from June 20-22.

Annual Award of $10,000 Will Honor Former UPS CEO George D. Smith

CHICAGO, April 12, 2011 – The Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS) today announced the establishment of the annual UPS George D. Smith Prize for operations research. The prize will recognize the practical importance of operations research while honoring academic leaders who embody the beliefs of Smith, the second CEO of UPS.