August • Volume 33 Number 4 The following table of contents lists articles in the June 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 ORacle Forum Letters to the Editor Essay Roundtable Profile Classifieds OR/MS Today now features Online Employment Classifieds Special Section: Innovative Education Amateur Operations Research By Peter C. Bell Teaching O.R. to execs: a threat to the profession or an opportunity to promote it?   The Spreadsheet Analytic Value Chain By Thomas A. Grossman Five essential steps MBAs must take to effectively employ analytical techniques in the real world.   Antidote for Academic Schizophrenia By Salwa Ammar From teaching to scholarship, INFORMS Transactions on Education aims to advance OR/MS education.   My Year as a Science Fellow By Anna Nagurney O.R. professor reflects on "unique" experience at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard.   Computing Agent-Based Simulation Comes of Age By Douglas A. Samuelson and Charles M. Macal Promising software opens up many new areas of application.   Software Survey: Forecasting By Jack Yurkiewicz Side-by-side comparison of 31 products that help fine-tune your choices.   The 2006 Forecasting Software Survey   Software Review: Maple 10 By Jason Schattman From symbolic computer to universal math machine. INFORMS News Pittsburgh Meeting Looms Large WSC 2006 Registration Open Call for Nominations: Editor of International Transactions in Operational Research Call for Nominations: Editor in Chief, INFORMS OnLine EURO Strategic Innovation Prize PEOPLE Position Statement: Cynthia Barnhart Position Statement: Don Kleinmuntz Symposium on O.R. and the Criminal Justice System Triennial Conference of IFORS 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, 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 2006 by Lionheart Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved.