Phillip McCord Morse Lectureship Award

Morse committee member George Nemhauser and INFORMS President Rina Schneur present the Philip McCord Morse Lectureship to William R. Pulleyblank.
2012 Winner: William R. Pulleyblank, United States Military Academy

Purpose of the Award

The Lectureship is awarded in honor of Philip McCord Morse in recognition of his pioneer contribution to the field of operations research and the management sciences. The award is given in odd-numbered years at the National Meeting if there is a suitable recipient. The term of the lectureship is two years. The award is $2,000, a certificate, a travel fund of $5,000, a copy of Morse's autobiography, In at the Beginnings: A Physicist's Life, and a copy of Morse and Kimball's Methods of Operations Research.

Past Awardees

2012 Winner William R. Pulleyblank, United States Military Academy
2010 Winner Edward H. Kaplan, Yale University
2008 Winner Lawrence M. Wein, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business
2006 Winner Marshall L. Fisher, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School Operations & Information Management Dept.
2004 Winner Alfred Blumstein, Carnegie Mellon University, Heinz College
2002 Winner Gary L. Lilien, Pennsylvania State University
2000 Winner Hugh J. Miser
1998 Winner Richard C. Larson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1996 Winner Alan J. Goldman, Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Applied Mathematics
1994 Winner Ralph L. Keeney, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
1992 Winner George L. Nemhauser, Georgia Institute of Technology, Dept. of Industrial & Systems Engineering
1990 Winner Robert Herman, University of Texas-Austin
1988 Winner John D.C. Little, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Award Information

The award is given in odd-numbered years at the National Meeting if there is a suitable recipient. The term of the lectureship is two years.

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About the Award/Namesake

Philip McCord Morse

Widely considered to be the father of operations research in the U.S., Dr. Morse organized the Anti-Submarine Warfare Operations Research Group (ASWORG), later ORG, for the U.S. Navy early in 1942. "That Morse’s group was an important factor in winning the war is fairly obvious to everyone who knows anything about the inside of the war," wrote historian John Burchard.He was a prime mover behind the creation of ORSA in 1952. He launched MIT’s Operations Research Center in 1956, directing it until 1968, and awarding the first Ph.D. in OR in the U.S. (to John Little)...

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Committee

2012 Committee Chair:

Edward H. Kaplan
Professor
Yale University
Yale School of Management
Box 208200
New Haven, CT 06520-8200 U.S.A.
voice: +1 203 432-6031
fax: +1 203 432-9995
email: edward.kaplan@yale.edu

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