October 2005 • Volume 32 Number 5 The following table of contents lists articles in the October 2005 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 Issues in Education Was It Something I Said Real World Letter to the Editor Call for Papers Industry News ORacle Classifieds OR/MS Today now features Online Employment Classifieds Special Report: New Orleans Meeting The Show Goes On ... in San Francisco By Peter Horner INFORMS staffers, volunteers move quickly to find a new home for conference in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.   Features Making Skies Safer By Laura A McLay, Sheldon H. Jacobson, John E. Kobza Applying operations research to aviation passenger prescreening systems.   O.R. for the Public Good By Kevin McCardle Many lawyers, doctors and other professionals routinely do pro bono work. Shouldn't O.R. professionals do the same?   O.R. in Africa By Jonathan P. Caulkins, Emily Eelman, Minoli Ratnatunga, David Schaarsmith Opportunities abound for INFORMS and other organizations to fuel profession's growth throughout diverse continent.   Computing COIN-OR Pays Off By Robin Lougee-Heimer Following open-source software model, online initiative provides repository for O.R. technology.   Software Review: WordStat 5.0 By Byung-Gak Son Content analysis software offers operations researchers valuable tool for exploring vast, untapped amounts of textual data. INFORMS News WSC 2005 - Simulation: Mission Critical Register Today for WSC 2005 INFORMS Annual Meeting 2005 - Guide to Exhibitors PEOPLE In Memoriam: Charles ReVelle Roundtable Members Discuss O.R. at P&G, Jeppesen Sanderson CPMS Officers INFORMS Meetings Don't forget the OR/MS Today Online Reader Service page! OR/MS Today Home Page OR/MS Today copyright © 2005 by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. All rights reserved. Lionheart Publishing, Inc. 506 Roswell Street, Suite220, 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 2005 by Lionheart Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved.