The following table of contents lists articles in the October 1996
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, Computing,
Special Sections or other
OR/MS Today web pages.
Inside Story
Letters
Issues
in Education -- Up-to-date coverage of INFORMED (INFORMS
Forum on Education) and other issues facing OR/MS educators.
Profile -- A close-up look at some of
the more intriguing personalities in the OR/MS community.
ORacle
Cyberspace
-- A detailed look at Internet resources for OR/MS practitioners
and educators.
Practictioner's Page
Practice
Lesson -- Geared toward practitioners, this section presents
the lessons learned and pitfalls encountered by Franz Edelman Award
finalists during the course of their work..
Real World -- A compendium of news items of interest to the
academic, engineering, industrial and technology fields.
Calendar
-- Information about upcoming events involving operations research
and/or management science.
Information Showcase
Call for
Papers -- Details regarding operations research/management
science events for which papers are sought in order to be presented
and/or published.
New
Books -- A round-up of new publications of interest to the
operations research/management science field.
Industry Update -- Business news, products, and software
upgrades and updates are presented here with an angle toward
practitioners and academics in operations research and management
science.
Classified --
click here to find out how to advertise in our next issue's classified
section.
Washington Report -- An
inside-the-beltway view of issues affecting the OR/MS community.
Keys to the White House
By Doug Samuelson
"Quantitative historian" Allan Lichtman employs classic OR to
predict presidential elections
Flying Scared
By Robert E. Machol
How much spending on air safety and security makes sense?
New Approaches to Management
Science
By Stephen G. Powell
From modeling to multimedia: How to teach difficult technical
skills to skeptical students
Integration: The Web and a
College Curriculum
By Michael Bartolacci
NJIT's School of Industrial Management identifies opportunities,
problems during ambitious project
Managing to Teach Consulting
By Yasemin Aksoy
MBA class presents new opportunities to introduce applied
operations research
2014: An Education Odyssey
By Paul Penfield and Richard C. Larson
MIT's future lies in a world of long-distance learning,
multimedia and no chalk
Software Review: MATLAB
By John J. Hutchinson
Interactive mathematical package offers high-performance numeric
computing and visualization
Last Call for Atlanta
President's Desk
Subdivisions Report
People in the News
Applied Probability Award
INFORMS Meetings
Vendor
Guide
A listing of exhibitors and software tutorials scheduled for
INFORMS' Atlanta meeting
OR/MS
Resource Directory
A "Yellow Pages" for the OR/MS community filled with software
vendors and company profiles
