The annual Bits On Our Minds (BOOM) exhibition yields several awards. One of them, "Where's the BOOM," reinterpreted the acronym to mean "Brains on our Machines." It was won by Thomas Byuen and Germán Gutiérrez Gallardo for their work on Monopoly. Read more
The Edelman prize is the highest award in the practice of Operations Research. In 2009 it was won by Hewlett Packard, which teamed up with Christopher Fry '94 of Strategic Management Systems to build an approach to managing HP's product portfolio. Read more
For those, such as ORIE alums Duane and David Stiller, in the business of developing or acquiring shopping centers, an M.Eng. team has developed a method to predict which retail chains are prospective tenants, even in a downturn. Read more
Each fall, new M.Eng. students are introduced to a slate of projects as a basis for choosing how they will pursue the central component of their program. By February, they have firmed up the scope and are immersed in solving problems for clients. Read more
Current and past students in ORIE Professor Jack Muckstadt's classes know that he is a exceptional teacher. Now that he has been designated a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, the word is out that he is one of Cornell's top undergraduate teachers. Read more
Robert Kaplan, ORIE Ph.D. '68, is Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School. He will speak at the Cornell Club on February 4, 2010 on "Maximizing Strategy Execution and Minimizing Risk: An Uneasy Alliance." Read more
Peter Frazier joined the ORIE faculty after receiving his Ph.D. in Operations Research and Financial Engineering from Princeton in 2009. He works on optimal learning, an approach to optimal decision making under uncertainty. Read more
Some games of Monopoly, which was developed during the Depression and has been played by an estimated 750 million people, seem to go on forever. In fact ORIE professors and students have estimated that there is a good chance that they really will. Read more
Professor Robert Bland and Communications Associate Mark Eisner were recently reunited with the student who attended their 1971 optimization class as a quadriplegic, when Ken Kunken '72 returned to Cornell to give an inspirational talk. Read more
Clinical trials are a major but necessary source of delay and cost in bringing pharmaceutical products to market. Some companies use a new approach,adaptive trial design, to reduce costs, but ORIE statistician Bruce Turnbull has expressed caution. Read more
