Michael A. Trick is the new President of INFORMS. Dr. Trick is also President of the Carnegie Bosch Institute for Applied Studies in International Management and Professor of Operations Research at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He is the Founding Editor of INFORMS Online, which boasts over 25,000 web pages. He is the creator of one of the most widely used online resources about the field, "Michael Trick's Operations Research Page," which becomes part of the INFORMS website this year.
The 2002 INFORMS Board of Directors includes the following:
Executive Committee
- President
Michael A. Trick
- President Elect
Thomas M. Cook, Chairman and CEO Replane, Inc., Dallas, TX
- Past President
James C. Bean, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
- Secretary
Stephen M. Robinson, Professor of Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
- Treasurer
Leslie D. Servi, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA
Vice Presidents
- Vice President, Information Technology
Matthew J. Saltzman, Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC
- Vice President, Meetings
Paul A. Jensen, Cullen Trust Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas, Austin, TX
- Vice President, Subdivisions
Anantaram Balakrishnan, Frank P. and Mary Jean Smeal Chair in Management Science and Information Systems, Pennsylvania State University; University Park, PA
- Vice President, Practice Activities
Grace Y. Lin, Senior Manager and Research Staff Member, e-Commerce Dept., IBM - T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
- Vice President, Publications
William P. Pierskalla, Professor, Operations and Technology Management, Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
- Vice President, International Activities
Peter C. Bell, Professor, Management Science and Information Systems, Richard Ivey School of Business, The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
The INFORMS Directors at Large are
- Collete R. Coullard, Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
- Nicholas G. Hall, Professor of Management Science, Operations Management, and Industrial Engineering, Department of Management Sciences, Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
- Donna C. Llewellyn, Director for Academic Support, Georgia Institute of Technology, Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, Atlanta, GA
The Director at Large not residing in the US is
- Andres F. Weintraub, Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
The INFORMS Directors Representing Subdivisions are
- W. Peter Cherry, Vice President, Vector Research, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI
- Dean S. Hartley, U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge, TN
- Leon S. Lasdon, David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Chair in Business Decision Support Systems, Dept. of Management Science and Information Systems, University of Texas, Austin, TX
- Bruce Patty, Vice President of Operations Research, The Kingsley Group, San Francisco, CA
- G. Jack Theurer, President, G. Theurer Associates Inc., New York, NY
The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®) is an international scientific society with over 10,000 members dedicated to applying scientific methods to help improve decision-making, management, and operations. Members of INFORMS work in business, government, and academia. They are represented in fields as diverse as airlines, health care, law enforcement, the military, finance, and telecommunications. 2002 is the 50th anniversary of organized operations research in the United States. 1952 was the year that the journal Operations Research and the Operations Research Society of America, one of the founding societies of INFORMS, were born. The INFORMS website is at http://www.informs.org