{"id":149,"date":"2007-05-13T00:03:57","date_gmt":"2007-05-13T04:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=138"},"modified":"2007-05-13T00:03:57","modified_gmt":"2007-05-13T04:03:57","slug":"interaction-of-computers-and-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/05\/13\/interaction-of-computers-and-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Interaction of Computers and People"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a few days, I give a “public lecture<\/a>” as part of the requirements for my Hood Fellowship<\/a> that the University of Auckland gave me (I would have visited here anyway – New Zealand is wonderful – but the Fellowship was a very nice addition). Rather than trot out a version of my “sports scheduling” talk, I am giving an overview of OR talk. It is really quite a challenge. These overview talks can be quite a snooze for those in the audience who know OR, so I am thinking hard about the role OR has in the world, and the challenges the field faces. The “Science of Better<\/a>” initiative of INFORMS<\/a> has been very helpful in this regard.<\/p>\n

One aspect I am exploring is the appropriate role of OR in decision making. While optimizers like me tend to be a bit impatient with this (“The best answer is this<\/em>! Stop arguing with me and do it!!), the real-world is full of stuff that doesn’t appear in our models. In many (most?) applications, OR is an adjunct to decision making, not a replacement. Slate<\/em><\/a> has an interesting article about this in the context of chess-playing programs<\/a> that I may try to work into my talk.<\/p>\n

Apologies in advance: the next few posts may be me trying to work through my thoughts in preparation for the talk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a few days, I give a “public lecture” as part of the requirements for my Hood Fellowship that the University of Auckland gave me (I would have visited here anyway – New Zealand is wonderful – but the Fellowship was a very nice addition). Rather than trot out a version of my “sports scheduling” … Continue reading “Interaction of Computers and People”<\/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":[4,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-applications","category-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","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=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}