Announcing the results of the 2026 INFORMS Board of Directors election and the new board for 2027.
INFORMS has named 12 distinguished leaders as the 2026 class of INFORMS Fellows, one of the highest honors in the profession.
Most medical devices do not hit the market through rigorous safety testing but by being deemed similar enough to something already approved—the “predicate” device through a mechanism known as the FDA’s 510(k) pathway. But similar is not a synonym for safe. While the assumption may be that substantial equivalence is a reasonable stand-in for a safety review, a share of devices cleared with this method still get recalled, and the FDA spends valuable time reviewing devices the same way, regardless of how risky it is on paper.
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The Georgia Institute of Technology, Northwestern University and the U.S. Military Academy are recognized for excellence in preparing students to become practitioners of operations research, analytics and data science.
INFORMS proudly celebrates the election of two distinguished members to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), one of the highest professional honors in the field.
University of Illinois computer science professor Sheldon Jacobson shares his thoughts on AI beating the odds and making a better bracket than humans for the annual NCAA March Madness.
Sunderesh Heragu with OSU’s Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers tells Brownfield U.S. ag exports are north of 175 billion dollars but margins are tight and farmers are hesitating to invest in their operations. “Farmers are not willing to put a lot of capital in at this point because they want to adopt a wait-and-see approach, of course, they’ve been doing this for the past year, almost.”
There is much uncertainty with respect to global trade. While geopolitical factors, war, weather, and demographic shifts have an impact, the factor with the largest near-term and possibly long-term impact is the uncertainty caused by unilateral trade conditions imposed by the US since April 2025. Since then, trade policy has shifted rapidly. Most recently – on February 20, 2206 – the U.S. Supreme Court struck down most of the Trump administration’s tariffs. The administration swiftly announced a new set of tariffs under a new law provision and set it at 10% across the board with all countries. A day or so later, the administration raised it from 10% to 15%.
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