October 2000 • Volume 27 Number 5 The following table of contents lists articles in the October 2000 print edition of OR/MS Today. You may follow any of the linked titles to read those items in their entirety. For quick navigation you may jump directly to any of the following sections: Departments Features INFORMS News Departments Inside Story INFORMS Online Cyberspace Issues in Education Was It Something I Said? ORacle Forum Real World Calendar New Books Industry News Call for Papers Literature Files Classifieds OR/MS Today now features Online Classifieds Features Gore Wins! (According to the model) By Douglas Samuelson Quantitative historian Allan Lichtman and statistician Jack Moshman use OR techniques to predict elections   Aiding Insight V By Daniel T. Maxwell Fifth biennial survey of decision analysis software reveals significant improvements in visualization of model results and sensitivities   Software Survey: Decision Analysis Side-by-side comparison of 33 decision analysis packages, including performance capabilities, prices and comments   JORS Turns 50 By John Ranyard The Journal of the Operational Research Society celebrates historic milestone with a series of special issues   Remembering Alan Pritsker By James R. Wilson and David Goldsman A tribute to one of the founders of computer simulation, whose many contributions to the field spanned nearly 50 years   Software Review: LGO By Harold P. Benson and Erjiang Sun User-friendly, versatile tool for global optimization suitable for classroom, research and applied decision-making INFORMS News San Antonio Highlights President's Desk People Meetings Exhibitors' Guide   OR/MS Today Home Page OR/MS Today copyright © 2000 by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. All rights reserved. Lionheart Publishing, Inc. 506 Roswell Street, Suite 220, Marietta, GA 30060, USA Phone: 770-431-0867 | Fax: 770-432-696 E-mail: lpi@lionhrtpub.com Web Site © Copyright 1999, 2000 by Lionheart Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved.