{"id":734,"date":"2009-06-30T21:24:44","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T01:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=734"},"modified":"2009-06-30T21:24:44","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T01:24:44","slug":"yet-another-name-for-our-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/06\/30\/yet-another-name-for-our-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another Name for Our Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was wandering through the Internets and came across a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.palisade.com\/blog\/operation-research\">new blog from Palisade.com<\/a>, makers of @RISK and other software.  It was a nice, relevant blog with some good stories, particularly on Monte Carlo simulation.  I was taken aback by the name of the blog, however: &#8220;Operation Research&#8221;.  I was a little confused for a bit and had to check back with my own blog to be sure that it is &#8220;Operations Research&#8221; normally in the US.  In much (but not all) of the rest of the world, it is &#8220;Operational Research&#8221;.  I am off to Bonn in a couple of days for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euro-2009.de\">EURO meeting<\/a>. During part of my time there, I will be attending board meetings for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifors.org\">IFORS<\/a>, where I try hard to use the term &#8220;Operational Research&#8221;.  <\/p>\n<p>But &#8220;Operation Research&#8221;?  That just sounds wrong.  It is hard to see how often that phrase occurs on web pages, since Google does some correction for you, but a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/#hl=en&#038;q=%22operation+research%22&#038;aq=f&#038;oq=&#038;aqi=g10&#038;fp=0k1C0PXk7Hc\">search<\/a> does show that it occurs, though often as a clear misspelling.  I am not sure it is an improvement, but does represent something that could be used when the &#8220;operations\/operational&#8221; conflict gets too much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was wandering through the Internets and came across a new blog from Palisade.com, makers of @RISK and other software. It was a nice, relevant blog with some good stories, particularly on Monte Carlo simulation. I was taken aback by the name of the blog, however: &#8220;Operation Research&#8221;. I was a little confused for a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/06\/30\/yet-another-name-for-our-field\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yet Another Name for Our Field&#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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-and-web"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","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=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}