December • Volume 33 Number 6 The following table of contents lists articles in the December 2006 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 Was It Something I Said Q.E.D. Issues in Education Forum Roundtable Profiles Letters to the Editor ORacle Classifieds OR/MS Today now features Online Employment Classifieds Features Dietrich Gets Down to Earth By Peter Horner A candid conversation with Brenda Dietrich, the no-nonsense president-elect of INFORMS.   How to Survive Your 15 Minutes of Fame By Sheldon H. Jacobson O.R. study linking obesity to increased vehicle fuel consumption triggers a national media storm.   Back on the Beat By Douglas A. Samuelson Two-day Washington, D.C., symposium reconnects O.R. and criminal justice.   Should the U.S. Have Attacked Iraq? By Maj. Ernest Y. Wong and Lt. Col. Rod Roederer Can decision theory shed light on polarizing debate that overshadows American politics?   Computing New Age of Optimization Applications By Carol Tretkoff and Irvin Lustig Increased computing speed, advances in modeling boost production for O.R. pros and users.   Improving Hard Decisions By Daniel T. Maxwell Biennial survey of decision analysis software offers side-by-side comparison of critical O.R. tools.   The 2006 Decision Analysis Software Survey INFORMS News INFORMS Prize Election Results von Neumann Prize Lanchester Prize Student Paper Competition President's Award Expository Writing Award Kimball Medal Teaching of OR/MS Practice Dantzig Dissertation Honors INFORMS Impact Award People INFORMS Meetings Don't forget the OR/MS Today Online Reader Service page! OR/MS Today Home Page OR/MS Today copyright © 2006 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 2006 by Lionheart Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved.