October 2002 • Volume 29 Number 5 The following table of contents lists articles in the October 2002 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 President's Desk INFORMS Online Cyberspace Issues in Education Was It Something I Said? ORacle Forum Letters Real World Calendar New Books Call for Papers Industry Update Classifieds OR/MS Today now features Online Employment Classifieds Features 50 Years of Operations Research History in the Making By Peter R. Horner INFORMS celebrates 50 years of problems, solutions, anecdotes and achievement   Great Moments in HistORy By Saul I. Gass Timeline of OR milestones covers all the bases, from Newton to von Neumann, from Kimball to Karmarkar   Milestone Manifesto By Andrew Vazsonyi Planting the seeds of TIMS: Academic hubris vs. business know-how   My First Taste of OR — • 'Frank Parker Fowler Jr. made me do it' By Gene Woolsey • 'I had a helluva big assignment' By Andrew Vazsonyi • 'I had never heard of OR' By Sid Hess   A Golden Quest By Barry List A search for signatures on a very special issue of Operations Research takes INFORMS staffers on a cross-country adventure   No Trivial Matter By Saul I. Gass Why was the Dantzig Cut the unkindest cut of all? Fifty questions to test your knowledge of operations research history   Computing Software Review: Data Mining Components By Auroop R. Ganguly Numerical Algorithms Group's product offers a range of business applications INFORMS News San Jose Meeting Celebrating 50 Years of Operations Research Guide to Exhibitors People In Memoriam Meetings Wanted: Education Materials Don't forget the OR/MS Today Online Reader Service page! OR/MS Today Home Page OR/MS Today copyright © 2002 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: 770-432-6969 E-mail: lpi@lionhrtpub.com URL: http://www.lionhrtpub.com Web Site © Copyright 2002 by Lionheart Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved.