Miser-Harris Presidential Portrait Gallery

The Presidential Portrait Gallery is named in honor of Hugh J. Miser (1917-1999) and Carl M. Harris (1940-2000), former presidents of The Institute for Management Science, the forerunner to INFORMS. The Gallery contains portraits and biographies of the presidents of INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences), ORSA (Operations Research Society of America), and TIMS (The Institute for Management Science). INFORMS was formed by the merger of ORSA and TIMS in 1995.

Click on the names below to view the full biography of each president.

Presidents of INFORMS

John D.C. Little	Alfred Blumstein	Arthur M. Geoffrion	Karla L. Hoffman	Thomas L. Magnanti	John R. Birge
James C. Bean	Michael A. Trick	Thomas M. Cook	Michael H. Rothkopf	Richard C. Larson	Mark S. Daskin
Brenda L. Dietrich	Cynthia Barnhart	Don N. Kleinmuntz	Susan L. Albin	Rina Schneur	Terry Harrison
Anne G. Robinson	Stephen M. Robinson	L. Robin Keller	Edward H. Kaplan	Brian Denton	Nicholas G. Hall
Ramayya Krishnan	Pinar Keskinocak	Stephen Graves	Radhika Kulkarni	Laura Albert

Presidents of ORSA

Philip M. Morse	Robert F. Rinehart	Jacinto Steinhardt	Leroy Brothers	Russell Ackoff	Bernard O. Koopman
John B. Lathrop	Charles J. Hitch	Martin L. Ernst	Merril M. Flood	Hugh J. Miser	Alexander Mood
George E. Kimball	George Shortley	John F. Magee	John E. Walsh	Joseph H. Engel	Thomas E. Caywood
W. Edward Cushen	Robert E. Machol	Leslie C. Edie	Robert M. Oliver	David B. Hertz	Jack R. Borsting
Saul Gass	Alfred Blumstein	Seth Bonder	John D.C. Little	Robert Herman	George L. Nemhauser
William P. Pierskalla	David A. Schrady	Michael E. Thomas	Hugh E. Bradley	Stephen M. Pollock	Judith S. Liebman
Thomas Magnanti	Donald Gross	Carl M. Harris	Charles McCallum, Jr.	John J. Jarvis	Richard C. Larson
Robert A. Abrams

Presidents of TIMS

William W. Cooper	Merril M. Flood	Gifford H. Symonds	Roger Crane	George Kozmetsky	Mel E. Salveson
Abraham Charnes	Murray Geisler	C. West Churchman	Kenneth J. Arrow	David B. Hertz	Robert Dorfman
George B. Dantzig	Ronald A. Howard	E. Leonard Arnoff	Robert M. Thrall	Peter V. Norden	John F. Magee
Richard M. Cyert	Harvey M. Wagner	Martin K. Starr	Donald B. Rice	Sidney W. Hess	Gerald M. Hoffman
Frank M. Bass	David S. Hirshfeld	Gerald Lieberman	Arthur M. Geoffrion	Herbert F. Ayres	H. Newton Garber
John D.C. Little	H. Martin Weingartner	R.E.D. Woolsey	Alfred Blumstein	Marshall Fisher	William R. King
Thomas M. Cook	Donald G. Morrison	Paul Gray	Gary L. Lilien	Mark R. Lembersky

Mission Statement

The History and Traditions Committee encourages and facilitates the collection and preservation of materials relating to the history and traditions of OR/MS.

Relevant materials include documents, audio and video recordings, and other artifacts relating to the OR/MS field, its founders, leaders, and notable activities. It encourages the creation and dissemination of new historical materials through articles in society publications, books, symposia, sessions at national meetings, electronic media, and other means, in order to summarize, interpret, and carry forward the history and traditions of OR/MS.