INFORMS honored 25 recipients of the INFORMS Fellows Award at a special luncheon held in conjunctions with the INFORMS meeting in San Francisco. The Fellows Award recognizes INFORMS members who have made significant contributions to the advancement of the fields of operations research and management science. The Class of 2005 brings the total number of Fellows to 181.

INFORMS inaugurated the Fellows Award in 2002 to recognize several categories of outstanding achievements in the field, including academic research in operations research; the practice of operations research; operations research on the management level of organizations; education in the O.R. field; and service to the association and the profession.

INFORMS Past President Richard Larson and Saul Gass, chairman of the 2005 Fellows Award Selection Committee, made the presentations.

The 2005 honorees:
John J. Bartholdi, III
School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology

Gerald G. Brown
Operations Research Department
Naval Postgraduate School

Stephen C. Graves
Sloan School of Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

J. Michael Harrison
Graduate School of Business
Stanford University

Dorit S. Hochbaum
Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
University of California-Berkeley

Paul A. Jensen
Mechanical Engineering Department
The University of Texas at Austin

Edward H. Kaplan
Yale School of Management
Yale University

Jeffery L. Kennington
School of Engineering
Southern Methodist University

Peter J. Kolesar
Graduate School of Business
Columbia University

Gilbert Laporte
Centre de Recherche sur les transports
Université de Montréal

Leon S. Lasdon
Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management
University of Texas

Hau L. Lee
Graduate School of Business
Stanford University

Michael Magazine
Department of Quantitative Analysis and Operations Management
University of Cincinnati

John M. Mulvey
Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Princeton University

Barry L. Nelson
Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
Northwestern University

Robert G. Sargent
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Syracuse University

Vicki L. Sauter
College of Business Administration
University of Missouri-St. Louis

Leroy B. Schwarz
Krannert Graduate School of Management
Purdue University

Suvrajeet Sen
Systems and Industrial Engineering
University of Arizona

David F. Shanno
Rutgers Center of Operations Research
Rutgers University

Éva Tardos
Department of Computer Science
Cornell University

Lawrence M. Wein
Graduate School of Business
Stanford University

Andrés Weintraub
Departmento de Ingenieriá Industrial
Universidad de Chile

James R. Wilson
Department of Industrial Engineering
North Carolina State University

David D. Yao
Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Columbia University






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