October 1999 • Volume 26 Number 5 The following table of contents lists articles in the October 1999 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 (IOL) Cyberspace Issues in Education Was it Something I said? Oracle Real World Calendar Call for Papers IFORS News New Books Industry Update Literature Files Classifieds OR/MS Today now features Online Classifieds Features Part Tool, Part Process By Brian Cargille, Steve Kakouros and Robert Hall Inventory optimization at Hewlett-Packard: How a small team of OR professionals produced big supply chain savings throughout the highly decentralized company   The Father of Linear Programming By Peter R. Horner Planning under uncertainty: On the eve of his 85th birthday, George Dantzig contemplates the past and future of operations research and his legendary legacy   Computing Software Survey: Desktop Statistics By James J. Swain Serious tools for decision-making: popular OR/MS software becomes even more important as statistical analysis becomes deeply integrated into organizations   Stat Survey Results Side-by-side comparison of 64 desktop statistical analysis packages   Software Review: Decision Explorer By Marion M. White and Susan W. Palocsay An easy-to-use mapping tool designed to aid in the structuring and analysis of qualitative information   INFORMS News IBM Wins INFORMS Prize President's Desk OR in the News INFORMS People Meetings Philly Meeting: Directory of Exhibitors Financial Statements OR/MS Today Home Page OR/MS Today copyright © 1999 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 by Lionheart Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved.