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Up for a contest? Making use of the great data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey, Georgia Tech's Bill Cook proposes a 115,475-city traveling salesman problem challenge through (nearly) all cities, towns, and villages in the contiguous 48 states. The prize winner receives $500 for the effort. Learn more here.
Through the service Coursera, the University of Pennsylvania's Christian Terwiesch is giving a free introductory course to Operations Management starting September 24. To enroll, visit here.
The INFORMS Job Placement Service has received the following new entries. Members always receive free access to all JPS listings!
Verizon Wireless - The Supply Chain Strategy and Analytics team at Verizon Wireless is looking for a Supply Chain Analytics Expert.
Verizon Wireless has an opening for a skilled lean six sigma expert with experience in supply chain process improvement.
Verizon Wireless - The Supply Chain Strategy and Analytics team at Verizon Wireless has an opening for a skilled expert in data mining, predictive modeling, and information assessment.
Melbourne Business School seeks to fill a permanent position in the area of operations management, at the assistant professor level.
Case Western Reserve University - The Department of Operations invites applications for one or two tenure-track positions as Assistant or Associate Professor with a research focus in supply chain management.
The INFORMS Facebook page is your road map to the most interesting article in cyberspace: Today in Science History, RSVP for INFORMS Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Guide to Supreme Court Betting, probability of being struck by lightning, and more. Read more at Facebook.
Tom Reilly posts his top ten most influential forecasters. Agree or disagree? Weigh in here.
Take advantage of your highly popular digital industry magazine to promote the profession. Articles for July/August include competitive crowdsourcing/analytics as sport, the future of forecasting, analytics and big data - skeptics vs. enthusiasts, analytics at IBM, business forecasting, power of predictive modeling, predictability of time series, and a great 2012 analytics treasure hunt. Click here to peruse the issue.
Stock market data, effect of new constraints on solution time for MIP, what can the Internet "cloud" provide for O.R.? See answers and discussion on OR Exchange, your meeting place for questions and answers about operations research and analytics.
Last issue, we told you about a committee at INFORMS that is looking closely at the Science of Better website with an eye toward updating and possibly recasting it. You told us what you thought of that idea:
- Leave it as is - 0%
- Update it and keep focus on O.R. - 56%
- Update it but change the focus to how to get started with analytics - 33%
- Scrap it altogether - 8%
There's still time. Click here to take poll. More thoughts than these answers give? Add your two cents on OR Exchange.
The Moving Spirit, Moving Spirit for Fora, and Judith Liebman awards were established to recognize outstanding volunteers in chapters, fora, and student chapters, respectively. We are accepting nominations for these three awards through August 27, 2012. Details on the purpose of the award and application process are available on these pages:
Please send questions and nominations to Tracy Byrnes.
The editors of OR/MS Tomorrow invite you to read their latest issue featuring an article on "OR & Computational Biology" by Drs. Harvey Greenberg and Allen Holder, spotlights on the Transportation Science & Logistics Society and the student chapter at Oklahoma State University, and more.
The magazine is also searching for new editorial team members. If you are interested in creating content of interest to the students of INFORMS, please contact Ezgi Can Eren (ezgieren@neo.tamu.edu) for details.
