Awards Releases

INFORMS, the leading international association for professionals in operations research and analytics, has selected six finalists for the 46th annual Franz Edelman Award for Achievements in Operations Research and Management Science, the world’s most prestigious award for achievement in the practice of analytics and O.R. 

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INFORMS, the leading international association for professionals in operations research and analytics, is accepting now applications for the 45th annual Franz Edelman Award for Achievements in Operations Research and Management Science, the world’s most prestigious award for achievement in analytics and operations research.  

The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®), the leading association for analytics professionals, announced that General Motors, which is using big data and advanced analytics to predict failure of certain automotive components and systems before customers are affected, is the winner of the 2016 INFORMS Prize for operations research and management science. 

The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®), the leading association for analytics professionals, announced it has awarded UPS its 2016 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences.

The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS^®) today announced three finalist schools in the competition for the 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.

INFORMS, the largest international association of professionals in analytics and operations research, announced today that six expert teams from around the world have been selected to participate in its 2016 Franz Edelman Award competition, which recognizes outstanding examples of real-world advanced analytics and operations research projects that are transforming industries, companies, and people’s lives.

The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS^®), the leading professional association in analytics and operations research, today announced a team of researchers that created a model using genetic signatures to predict the efficacy of vaccines on an individual by individual basis is the winner of the Daniel H. Wagner Prize.

The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS^®), the leading professional association in analytics and operations research, today announced eight new recipients of the annual INFORMS Fellow Award. 

The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the leading professional association in analytics and operations research, and Syngenta, announce a new, joint award, the Syngenta Crop Challenge, which will focus on ways that analytics can address the problem of feeding millions of people throughout the world who face hunger every day.