Showing posts with label IBM. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IBM. Show all posts
Sunday, March 10, 2019

Smarter Cities - A Company Expert Speaks

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This past Friday, just before the official of the UMass Amherst Spring Break (one week recess), we had the great pleasure of hearing Dr. Jur...
Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Cybersecurity and Financial Services and Prescriptive Analytics

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Yesterday, I had the honor of speaking on Cybersecurity and Financial Services at the I NFORMS Analytics Conference in Boston . The confere...
Thursday, February 6, 2014

Congrats to 2014 Newly Elected National Academy of Engineering Members - a Great List with Operations Research represented

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After teaching my Humanitarian Logistics and healthcare class this morning I heard the great news. Today the National Academy of Engineeri...
Sunday, November 24, 2013

The Value of Q&A Sessions with Top Operations Researchers from Industry

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Last Friday, we had the pleasure and honor of hosting Dr. Mary E. Helander of IBM Yorktown Heights at the Isenberg School of Management thro...
Monday, November 11, 2013

Hosting Master Inventor Dr. Mary Helander of IBM

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Mark your calendars! On Friday, November 22, the UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter and I will be hosting IBM Master Inventor Dr. Mary...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Rest in Peace, Nobel Laureate Kenneth G. Wilson

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My husband, who has a PhD in physics, told me the sad news today that the Nobel laureate in physics, Dr. Kenneth G. Wilson, has died. I re...
Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Networks and Operations Research, Patterns and Big Data -- So How Does Money and Traffic Flow?

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We've heard about the new geography -- now we are hearing about the new mathematics and at the prestigious Goldman Sachs technology conf...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011

New Female CEO of IBM as the Glass Ceiling Shatters

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I am VERY impressed by the announcement that IBM has selected as its new CEO, to start in 2012, a female, and one with a degree in computer ...
Friday, June 17, 2011

Happy 100th Birthday to IBM!

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Reaching 100 years of age is remarkable for anyone, including a company, so congratulations are in order to IBM, which has reached its first...
Thursday, March 10, 2011

Real Generals Talk Logistics and Winning in the Great Restructuring

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There is an old military saying, which speaks volumes: Armchair generals talk strategy. Real generals talk logistics. Rich Karlgaard, the pu...
Thursday, February 17, 2011

Congrats to IBM on Watson's Win on Jeopardy and to All Researchers Who Contributed!

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If you have not heard, the supercomputer named "Watson" beat two humans on Jeopardy , and garnered, or its developer, IBM, did, t...
Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Photos from the Women in OR/MS Award Lunch in Austin, Texas

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Above I share some photos with you taken at the Women in Operations Research and the Management Sciences (WORMS) Awards Luncheon this past T...
Tuesday, May 18, 2010

High Tech Mergers Are HOT Again

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USAToday.com is reporting that high tech mergers, both in number and in value, are on the increase. Especially attractive, as acquisitions, ...
Saturday, September 19, 2009

Dr. Helander on Food Safety, Social Networks, and IBM to Receive National Medal of Technology and Innovation

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Yesterday, Dr. Mary Helander of IBM, spoke in our Speaker Series . Since she arrived the evening before and overnighted at the Black Walnut ...
Thursday, May 21, 2009

Women, Math, and Most Creative in Business

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Fast Company has announced its 100 most creative people in business and Dr. Brenda Dietrich of IBM, who is well-known in the INFORMS comm...
Saturday, February 21, 2009

Dr. Ellis Johnson from Georgia Tech Speaks

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Yesterday, February 20, 2009, Professor Ellis Johnson of Georgia Tech kicked off our Spring UMass Amherst Speaker Series in Operations Resea...