Franz Edelman Laureates: Class of 1977

FIRST PLACE

Team: Syncrude
Paper: Simulation of Tar Sands Mining Operations
Laureates: F. Paul Wyman

FINALISTS

Team: AT&T
Paper: The Application of Management Science to the Design of Telephone Directories
Laureates: Stephen Chen
Charles McCallum
Team: Farm Credit Banks
Paper: An Application of Management Science to Bank Borrowing Strategies
Laureates: Dwight Crane
Frederick Knoop
William Pettigrew
Team: Government of The Sudan & Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Level
Paper: The Sudan Transport Study
Laureates: Thomas Saaty
Team: The Hertz Corporation
Paper: The Pool Control System
Laureates: Martin Edelstein
Myron Melnyk
Team: United Airlines
Paper: Evaluation Of The Effectiveness Of A Model Saleman's Planning System by Field Experimentation
Laureates: William Fudge
Leonard Lodish
Team: Xerox Corporation
Paper: New Product Planning Decisions Under Uncertainty
Laureates: John Chamber
Ronald Hudson
Robert Johnston

Interfaces Edelman Award Special Issue

Jan/Feb 2012 issue of Interfaces features the Edelman papers! Read these inspiring examples of major difference-making O.R. projects.

Edelman Award Videos

View the 2012, 2011, and 2010 Edelman Award presentations for outstanding examples of difference-making OR/MS and advanced analytics in practice in the INFORMS Video Learning Center.

 Other years' presentations available for order on DVD.