February 2004 • Volume 31 Number 1 The following table of contents lists articles in the February 2004 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? Real World New Books Industry News Call for Papers ORacle Classifieds OR/MS Today now features Online Employment Classifieds Features In Memoriam: Andy Vazsonyi By Saul Gass Recalling the life and times of an OR/MS pioneer, educator, researcher, illustrator and author.   Forum: The Science of Better       Promotion is fine, but profession needs a better product       By Heiner Müller-Merbach         Operations research gives profession a bad name       By Mathieu Balez         Progress report on initiative to market the profession       By Barry List   The 'Center' of Attention By Peter Horner The Operations Research Center at MIT prepares to celebrate 50 years at the top of the class of OR grad school education.         Applying Science to the Art of Business       By Terry Cryan       Preview of INFORMS Practice Conference to be held       in Cambridge, Mass., April 25-28.   The 'Keys' to the White House By Doug Samuelson The 2004 presidential election: do long-term patterns dictate the outcome? Quantitative historian Allan Lichtman uses OR techniques to predict elections.   Computing Software Review: Insight 2.0 By Stefan Scholtes New edition of Sam Savage's Excel add-ins for uncertainty modeling earns high marks for teaching management science. INFORMS News Northern Exposure Tutorial Lineup Tourists' Questions Meeting Mania Wagner Prize Subdivision Awards Aviation Applications Computing Society Decision Analysis Health Applications Location Analysis Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Military Applications Optimization Organization Science Quality, Statistics and Reliability Railroad Applications Technology Management Transportation Science and Logistics Boyce Earns TSL's Lifetime Achievement Award Moving Spirits Case Competition CIST Best Papers People In Memoriam: Patricia Thornton Meetings Don't forget the OR/MS Today Online Reader Service page! OR/MS Today Home Page OR/MS Today copyright © 2004 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 2004 by Lionheart Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved.