Franz Edelman Laureates: Class of 1993

FIRST PLACE

Team: AT&T
Paper: AT&T's Call Processing Simulator (CAPS) Operational Design for Inbound Call Centers
Laureates: Anthony Brigandi - AT&T
Dennis Dargon - AT&T
Michael Sheenan - AT&T
Thomas Spencer - AT&T

FINALISTS

Team: Bellcore (Telcordia Technologies)
Paper: Telephone Companies Analyze Price Quotations with Bellcore's PDSS Software
Laureates: Paul Katz - Bellcore (Telcordia Technologies)
Amir Sadrian - Bellcore (Telcordia Technologies)
Pactrick Tendick - Bellcore (Telcordia Technologies)
Team: Delta Air Lines
Paper: Coldstart: Fleet Assignment at Delta Air Lines
Laureates: John Quillinan - Delta Air Lines
Roy Marsten - Georgia Institute of Technology
Richard Scheff - Delta Air Lines
Radhika Subramanian - Delta Air Lines
D. Steve Wiper - Delta Air Lines
Team: Frank Russell Co. & The Yasuda Fire & Marine Insurance Co.
Paper: The Russel-Yasuda Kasai Model: An Asset/Liability Model for a Japanese Insurance Company Using Multistate Stochastic Programming
Laureates: David Carino - Frank Russell Co.
Terry Kent - Frank Russell Co.
David Myers - Frank Russell Co.
Celine Stacy - Frank Russell Co.
Mike Sylvanus - Frank Russell Co.
Andrew Turner - Frank Russell Co.
Kouji Wantanabe - The Yasuda Fire & Marine Insurance Co., Ltd.
William Ziemba - University of British Columbia
Team: NASA
Paper: Risk Managment for the Tiles of the Space Shuttle
Laureates: M. Elisabeth Paté-Cornell - Stanford University
Paul Fischbeck - Carnegie Mellon University
Team: North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
Paper: Improving Pupil Transportaton in North Carolina
Laureates: Thomas Sexton - State University of New York at Stony Brook
Sally Sleeper - Sleeper Associates
Robert Taggart - David M. Griffith & Associates, Ltd.

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