{"id":63,"date":"2006-04-28T07:55:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-28T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=50"},"modified":"2006-04-28T07:55:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-28T11:55:00","slug":"edelman-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/04\/28\/edelman-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Edelman Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.informs.org\/Conf\/Practice06\/media\/images\/fea.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www2.informs.org\/Conf\/Practice06\/media\/images\/fea.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.informs.org\/Conf\/Practice06\/edelman.htm\">Edelman Competition<\/a> will take place in a few days at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.informs.org\/Cofn\/Practice06\">INFORMS Practice Conference<\/a>.  The Edelman Competition presents projects in practical operations research that have a significant impact on an organization.  This year&#8217;s finalists include work from Travelocity, the TSA, Warner Robbins Air Logistics, Center and more.  I really like the Edelman:  the finalists put papers into Interfaces, and those papers are a tremendous resource for my MBA classes.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, every competition could be improved.  I was mulling on the thought of turning this competition into a reality show.  Lock a bunch of ORers in a plant for six weeks with cameras everywhere, and watch them try to out-optimize each other to be the last one standing.  Probably wouldn&#8217;t compete with American Idol, but I certainly would watch it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s Edelman Competition will take place in a few days at the INFORMS Practice Conference. The Edelman Competition presents projects in practical operations research that have a significant impact on an organization. This year&#8217;s finalists include work from Travelocity, the TSA, Warner Robbins Air Logistics, Center and more. I really like the Edelman: the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/04\/28\/edelman-competition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Edelman Competition&#8221;<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-applications","category-informs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","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=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}