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2025 INFORMS Franz Edelman Award Finalists Announced: Groundbreaking Research Revolutionizing Healthcare, Saving Millions and Tackling Global Chall...
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BALTIMORE, MD, January 17, 2025 – INFORMS, the world’s largest association for professionals and students in operations research (O.R.), AI, analytics and data science, has unveiled six finalists for the prestigious 2025 Franz Edelman Award for achievement in advanced analytics, operations research and management science. Recognized as the pinnacle of achievement in the application of analytics and operations research, the award, often referred to as “The Nobel Prize” of O.R. and advanced analytics, celebrates groundbreaking research and innovations that are transforming industries, improving lives and shaping a smarter, more sustainable future.

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America must act to secure its ‘legacy chips’ from China and other competitors
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Cutting-edge chips, especially those designed to power emerging AI applications, tend to receive the most attention in the media and generate the most excitement. However, so-called “legacy” chips are just as important — if not more — to our daily lives.  

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Do blood donation centers sell your blood?
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January is National Blood Donor Month and, not coincidentally, a time when donations tend to ebb. Every two seconds, someone in the U.S. needs blood for serious injuries, childbirth, cancer treatments and more, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. 

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PSR Point/Counterpoint: Fortune

PSR Point/Counterpoint: Fortune

Railway Age, July 22, 2021

The first editorial, by Ike Brannon, Senior Fellow at the Jack Kemp Foundation, and Michael F. Gorman, Niehaus Chair in Operations and Analytics at the University of Dayton and Editor-in-Chief of the INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) Journal on Applied Analytics, takes the pro-PSR stance. The response, by House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chair Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), paints PSR as “a business strategy promoted by Wall Street to boost short-term profits.”

Moderna may expand pediatric COVID-19 vaccine trial

Moderna may expand pediatric COVID-19 vaccine trial

CBS News, July 27, 2021

Moderna said Monday it may expand the size of its COVID-19 vaccine trial for younger children, as both Pfizer and Moderna plan to seek authorization from the Food and Drug Administration to vaccinate some of the youngest Americans later this year.

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