{"id":1163,"date":"2010-06-18T10:17:11","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T14:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=1163"},"modified":"2010-06-18T10:17:11","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T14:17:11","slug":"watch-the-edelmans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/06\/18\/watch-the-edelmans\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch the Edelmans!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have said numerous times that the Edelman Prize<\/a> presentations and papers are my favorite part of the operations research world.\u00a0\u00a0 It is fantastic to see and read about such great work in operations research.\u00a0 The presentations often feature a Cxx of the firm.\u00a0 Watching business leaders explain the importance of operations research never gets old to me.\u00a0 And some of them actually read the script with feeling and (seeming) understanding (others look like they are reading under duress, with uzi’s pointed at them from just offscreen).<\/p>\n

The Edelman’s have all been recorded through the years, and INFORMS<\/a> (the professional organization that runs the Prize)\u00a0 has experimented with how best to distribute the results.\u00a0 We have gone from video tapes to DVDs to YouTube snippits.\u00a0 There was always an issue of monetizing the presentations.\u00a0 If this is our field’s best work, surely we can make money on it!\u00a0 But making money limits distribution.<\/p>\n

At least for now, INFORMS seems to have given up the money aspect, and even any membership aspect, and offers the most recent Edelman presentations for the low, low cost of a site registration<\/a>.\u00a0 Once you register, you can see all sorts of neat videos.\u00a0 In addition to the Edelman finalists, there are Richard O’Neill’s talk on energy markets\u00a0 (he is the chief economic adviser to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission), Chris Tang’s talk on supply chain risk management, and the Wagner Prize finalists.\u00a0 For all, there is a proprietary presentation which shows both the powerpoint slides and the speaker.<\/p>\n

I do have one big complaint about this setup, however.\u00a0 The system, as currently designed, appears to fall into a trap that operations research often sets for itself.\u00a0 If you know you want what the system offers, it is easy to work with:\u00a0 registration is fast and relatively non-intrusive.\u00a0 But the listing of the videos is “behind the wall”, so someone interested in, say, energy markets, has no idea that this site would have a great talk on the subject.\u00a0\u00a0 Why aren’t all the talk titles and abstracts freely available?\u00a0 Better yet, why bother with registration?\u00a0 Based on the privacy agreement<\/a>, it does not appear that INFORMS can even market to those who register.\u00a0 Why hide anything?<\/p>\n

For those of us in the know, this is a tremendous resource!\u00a0 For those of you who have not yet discovered the beauty, fun, interest and (particularly) importance of operations research, I strongly urge you to go to the site<\/a> and explore.\u00a0 It might change your life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have said numerous times that the Edelman Prize presentations and papers are my favorite part of the operations research world.\u00a0\u00a0 It is fantastic to see and read about such great work in operations research.\u00a0 The presentations often feature a Cxx of the firm.\u00a0 Watching business leaders explain the importance of operations research never gets … Continue reading “Watch the Edelmans!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,28,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-applications","category-informs","category-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}