From the INFORMS Blog:
I just got back from the Fellows Luncheon. The INFORMS Fellows are recognized for having made significant contributions to the field of operations research and the management sciences (be it in research, practice, service, administration, or education). It is an extremely impressive group, and I very much enjoy the lunch, since conversation [...]
I am a huge fan of the Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences (best work in operations research practice) given by INFORMS. The applications are uniformly inspiring and the presentations go way, way beyond the norm for our field. The full papers, published every January in Interfaces, are ones [...]
BellKor’s Pragmatic Chaos! While The Ensemble nipped BPC at the wire for the public test sets, the BellKor team did better on the hidden test set. From the announcement:
Team BellKor’s Pragmatic Chaos edged out team The Ensemble with the winning submission coming just 24 minutes before the conclusion of the nearly three-year-long contest. Historically the [...]
Inspired by Jon Cryer’s comments on (finally) winning an Emmy last night:
You know, I used to think that awards were just shallow tokens of momentary popularity but — I realize they are the only true measure of person’s real worth as a human being.
I thought I would ‘fess up about an award or two coming [...]
I am not at Mathematical Programming, but fearless blogger Tallys Yunes is, and he reported on the prizes given out yesterday (Tallys is also an example of the excellent students that come out of the Tepper School: a theme for this post). The Tepper School (Carnegie Mellon’s business school) did well, with Gérard Cornuéjols (faculty [...]
Christos Papadimitriou of UC Berkeley was the IFORS Distinguished Lecturer at the EURO Meeting yesterday (in the fuzzy picture, he is getting his award from IFORS President Elise del Rosario), and gave a very fine lecture on “Computing Equilibria” (and Sex, though that was not in the formal title). The starting point for his lecture [...]
I am in Bonn, Germany for the EURO Conference. Tons of people here (2200+) but the organizers seem to be coping very well. Last night was a nice reception in a beer garden nearby. It has been a long time since I was at a conference with unlimited free beers. This [...]
Hewlett Packard, for their product portfolio management systems. As a judge, I don’t want to say anything beyond saying I think the HP team makes an outstanding Edelman Award winner. Congratulations to them and all of the other finalists.
The January-February 2009 issue of Interfaces is now online, which means the papers from the 2008 Edelmans have now arrived. My only disappointment is that my “OR Techniques for Consultants” course was moved up 7 weeks, so this year’s students had to make due with last year’s papers.
The papers include:
The New Dutch Timetable: The OR [...]
The ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery) has announced 44 new Fellows. A number of them are well-known in the operations research community (some are just plain well-known: can it be that Stephen Cook of NP-completeness fame was not a Fellow before now?). These include:
Tuomas Sandholm, Carnegie Mellon. Tuomas does an amazing number of things [...]
