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INFORMS Facebook page is your road map to the most interesting articles in cyberspace: intersection of supply chain strategy and sustainability, quick explanation of John von Neumann's minimax theorem, how you can use numbers to describe someone, maximize productivity with industrial engineer and operations research. Read more at facebook.
Marc Kuo asks, "How ready are businesses to exploit the full potential of operations research?" Read more and vote.
Watch for your highly popular digital industry magazine. Scheduled topics for July/August include business forecasting, power of predictive modeling, and forecasting software survey. Click here to peruse the previous issue.
The 2012 Member Survey finished up with nearly 1,800 respondents. Thank you! The Marketing Strategy Committee is working hard to analyze the data and place it on the INFORMS website for your perusal. The 10 winners of the Amazon Kindle Fire e-readers chosen at random are Annie Dodson, Fred Rexroad, Avijit Sarkar, Ross Collins, Shaila Miranda, Agapi Fytraki, Michael Beeler, Stephen Clark, João Paulo Santos, and Paolo Letizia. Anyone you know? Be sure to congratulate them.
Over 40 of your INFORMS colleagues are busy writing the profession's first general analytics exam. The certification exam will be offered at the 2013 INFORMS Analytics Conference. Click here for more information.
Thank you goes to Carrie Beam, Jeffrey Brown, Gerald Bush, Margery Connor, LiYing Cui, Tapas Das, Gavin DeNyse, Myles Gartland, Venu Gopalakrishna-Remani, Arnie Greenland, Chris Holiday, Ben Horton, Shrikant Jarugumilli, Nan Kong, Rakesh Kulkarni, Jennifer Leong, Fang Lui, Heping Lui, Freeman Marvin, Larry Myers, Bill Nanry, Shankar Narayan, Scott Nestler, Ivan Oliveira, Maarten Oosten, Burke Powers, Jatin Rai, Thiery Rakotobe, Todd Retchless, Subhashish Samaddar, Amit Saraswat, Steve Sashihara, Matthew Schall, Lee Schruben, Udo Sglavo, Nishant Sinha, Durai Sundaramoorthi, Richard Walker, Chen Wang, Paul Wicker, Hui Yang, Greg Zaric, and Bo Zhang.
Sorting with CPLEX; visualizing the dual problem; good book on duality theory; what have you used O.R. for other than your job? OR Exchange, your meeting place for questions and answers about operations research and analytics.
Get your thesis animated by Jorge Cham, the creator of PHD Comics! Record yourself describing your thesis work in two (2) minutes (audio only). Upload the recording and a thumbnail-sized image representing you and/or your thesis by August 1, 2012. Your entry may be selected to be animated by Jorge Cham and broadcast on this site! If you are selected, INFORMS will help mobilize members to vote for you as the grand prize winner. Click here for details, and good luck!
Moderated by noted IT futurist Thornton May, experts at the INFORMS 2012 Analytics Conference explore the excitement, promise, and challenge of big data. View video here.
Click here to take poll. More thoughts than these answers give? Add your two cents on OR-Exchange.
Time is growing short to apply for the 2012-2013 Innovation in Analytics Award. All are welcome, including INFORMS nonmembers. The purpose of the Innovation in Analytics Award is to recognize creative and unique developments, applications, or combinations of analytical techniques. Read more.
