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Cornell University Professor, Mark E. Lewis, elected president-elect of INFORMS
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BALTIMORE, MD, October 31, 2024 – INFORMS, the leading international association for professionals in operations research, analytics, management science, economics, behavioral science, statistics, artificial intelligence, data science, applied mathematics and other relevant fields, announced that Mark E. Lewis, Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Engineering at Cornell University, has been elected the 2026 INFORMS president.

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Sheldon H. Jacobson: Time to terminate the torture of time changes
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It happens twice a year. One the second Sunday in March, clocks are turned forward one hour, while on the first Sunday in November, they turn back by the same amount.

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The problem with polling
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Seemingly every day, new polls report that Donald Trump is either ahead of Kamala Harris by 2 points or behind by 2 points.  

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Don’t Trust Experts’ Forecasts, O.R. Study Says

News Release, August 28, 2007

Hanover, MD, August 28, 2007 – A study about predicting the outcome of actual conflicts found that the forecasts of experts who use their unaided judgment are little better than those of novices, according to a new study in a publication of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®).

Nobel Prize Winner Markowitz Recommends Economic Solutions at INFORMS Annual Meeting

News Release, October 1, 2009

SAN DIEGO, CA, October 1, 2009 – University of California San Diego Adjunct Professor Harry M. Markowitz, whose seminal work in portfolio theory led to his receiving the John von Neumann Theory Prize in 1989 and the Nobel Prize in Economics the following year, will discuss the current economic crisis and recommended solutions at the annual meeting of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®).

Iraq Troops’ PTSD Rate as High as 35%

News Release, September 14, 2009

HANOVER, MD, September 14, 2009 – The Veterans’ Administration should expect a high volume of Iraq veterans seeking treatment of post traumatic stress disorder, with researchers anticipating that the rate among armed forces will be as high as 35%, according to the Management Insights feature in the current issue of Management Science, the flagship journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®).

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