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<br /> AWARDS GALORE: INFORMS salutes its brightest stars<br /> December 2016<br /> Volume 43 • Number 6<br /> ormstoday.informs.org<br /> Inside:<br /> Why the polls were wrong<br /> The presidential election that<br /> confounded everyone<br /> O.R. at Google<br /> Tech giant a ‘candy store’ for<br /> practitioners<br /> Sound data science<br /> Avoiding most pernicious<br /> prediction pitfall<br /> Balancing<br /> risk with<br /> probability<br /> PG&E case study: Emerging discipline<br /> of probability management provides<br /> overall risk snapshot to assess<br /> tradeoffs between safety, reliability<br /> and cost<br /> Moving ahead with membership<br /> Interview with incoming INFORMS<br /> President Brian Denton<br /> <br /> <br /> Contents<br /> December 2016 | Volume 43, No. 6 | ormstoday.informs.org<br /> Features<br /> 1<br /> 8<br /> 18 Roundtable profile<a title="ORMS Today December2016 page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d4cab6ab?page=1"> AWARDS GALORE: INFORMS salutes its brightest star</a> <a title="ORMS Today December2016 page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d4cab6ab?page=2"> </a> <a title="ORMS Today December2016 page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d4cab6ab?page=3"> </a> <a title="ORMS Today December2016 page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d4cab6ab?page=4"> Contents December 2016 | Volume 43, No. 6 | o</a> <a title="ORMS Today December2016 page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d4cab6ab?page=5"> Welcome to Analytic Solver® Cloud-based Optimizat</a> <a title="ORMS Today December2016 page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d4cab6ab?page=6"> December 2016 | Volume 43, No. 6 | ormstoday.</a> <a title="ORMS Today December2016 page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d4cab6ab?page=7"> Welcome to Analytic Solver® Cloud-based Simulatio</a> <a title="ORMS Today December2016 page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d4cab6ab?page=8"> Inside Story Peter Horner, editor peter.hor</a> <a title="ORMS Today December2016 page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d4cab6ab?page=9"> Welcome to Analytic Solver® Cloud-based Data and </a> <a title="ORMS Today December2016 page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d4cab6ab?page=10"> President’s Desk Ed Kaplan ‘</a> <a title="ORMS Today December2016 page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d4cab6ab?page=11"> Operations research is a terrific, wonderful </a> <a title="ORMS Today December2016 page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d4cab6ab?page=12"> INFORMS in the News Compiled by Ashley Kilg</a> <a title="ORMS Today December2016 page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d4cab6ab?page=13"> and systems engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic</a> <a title="ORMS Today December2016 page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d4cab6ab?page=14"> Issues in Education By James J. 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