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When elected officials control the maps, they are not just participating in democracy. They are engineering the habitat in which democracy thrives or languishes. That makes redistricting not only a political problem, but also an operations research problem.

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INFORMS has awarded Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) its 2026 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Advanced Analytics, Operations Research and Management Science, for reengineering how global cloud infrastructure is planned and delivered, applying advanced analytics and AI to orchestrate complex fulfillment decisions across its rapidly expanding data center network.

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In the rush to adopt artificial intelligence, many employers are now requiring that employees use AI tools. As you’re using AI, be intentional and selective. It’s critical that you know yourself. Research published in Management Science found that AI is most valuable for people who understand their own abilities and limitations. Assess yourself, so you can factor this into your process for incorporating AI into your work.

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New Research Finds Data-Driven Staffing Model Delivers Major Cost Savings for Healthcare Systems

News Release, February 12, 2026

New research published in the INFORMS journal Operations Research shows that healthcare systems can substantially reduce overtime, idle time and overall staffing costs by adopting a multilocation, dynamic staff-planning model for anesthesiologists. The study is based on the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), which cut daily overtime and idle time across 11 hospitals, generating over $800,000 in annual cost savings.

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New Study Reveals People Judge Lines by What’s Ahead — Not How Long They Wait

News Release, February 5, 2026

Conventional wisdom is that waiting in a queue online or in a physical line involves a certain cost for people and organizations. Rational analysis has largely based its queue management predictions on remaining wait time, or how long someone has left to wait. Much of the planning around the design of queues is based on this factor. New research examines other parameters that can play important roles in determining the “cost of queuing.”

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Could your electric vehicle pose a cybersecurity risk?

880 CHED in Edmonton and 770 AM in QR Calgary , February 4, 2026

Zachary Collier, Assistant Professor of Management at Radford University, joins Shaye Ganam to talk about EVs in Canada and the inherent cybersecurity risk in operating them.

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Gender-inclusive language alone does not change behavior

OFR, February 4, 2026

Using different words changes our behavior: that's the hope behind gender-inclusive language. However, new experiments show that gender-inclusive language doesn't change anything in practice, at least in the short term. Nevertheless, one expert believes it's valuable as part of a "toolbox" for greater equality.

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Some big-name companies are laying off workers. Here's what it means

ABC News, February 3, 2026

A series of job cuts in recent days slashed tens of thousands of workers combined at name-brand companies like Amazon, UPS and Pinterest. The moves drew renewed attention to a sharp slowdown in the labor market, which has prompted interest-rate cuts at the Federal Reserve and concern among some observers about the health of the economy.

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