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AI-Powered Tech Supercharges Ocean Cleanup, Boosting Plastic Collection by 60%
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BALTIMORE, MD, April 23, 2025 – As plastic pollution in the world’s oceans reaches critical levels, groundbreaking new research reveals how artificial intelligence-driven algorithms can dramatically accelerate plastic waste removal – boosting efficiency by more than 60%.

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China’s rare earth minerals power the modern world. Banning their export could destroy it
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Beijing has a virtual monopoly on rare earth minerals—the materials that power everything from military planes to your electric toothbrush.

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Trump’s tech tariff confusion
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The Trump administration’s back-and-forth moves on tariffs for technology products are stirring confusion in a sector heavily reliant on global supply chains.  
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2014 Wagner Prize press release

News Release, November 26, 2013

The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®), the leading professional association for analytics professionals, today announced that the winner of the Daniel H. Wagner Prize judged by CPMS, the association’s practice section, is Ford Motor for an innovative approach to an important issue facing companies with a global presence: early identification of supply chain risks and a new process to respond when things go wrong.

Firms Intentionally Pressure Sales People to Invest in Costly Internal Negotiations

News Release, November 20, 2014

CATONSVILLE, MD, November 20, 2014 – In many firms sales people spend as much time negotiating internally for lower prices as they do interacting with customers.  A new study appearing in the November issue of Marketing Science, a publication of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) finds that firms should allow their sales people to “waste” energy on internal negotiations. In fact, it says, firms should make the process wasteful on purpose.

Survey shows most organizations don't have plan in place to assess their analytics maturity

November 13, 2014

According to a new INFORMS survey of 230 business, government and academic representatives released today, the concept of "analytics maturity" is important or very important to their businesses (65 percent). Yet, 82 percent of those same respondents admitted they do not have a plan, model, or any other mechanism in place for measuring the efficacy or maturity of their analytics best practices over time.

Some 47 percent of those surveyed attributed the lack of analytics maturity modeling to the fact they don't believe it will help their businesses thrive, while 21 percent said they cannot afford an analytics maturity model solution.

"The ability to fully assess the maturity level of an organization's analytics best practices is paramount to their efficacy," said Aaron Burciaga, senior manager, operations analytics at Accenture. "With more access to information than ever before, organizations must have a strategy in place for how they leverage data and analytics, and assess the maturity of their programs to empower decision making and drive organizational strategy."

Megiddo wins von Neumann Theory Prize 2014

News Release, November 11, 2014

The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) today announced the award of its John Von Neumann Theory prize, a sometime harbinger of the Nobel Prize, to IBM’s Nimrod Megiddo for innovations in game theory, linear programming, and combinatorial optimization.

Impact Prize to COIN-OR

News Release, November 11, 2014

The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) recognized a longstanding open source software program with its 2014 INFORMS Impact Prize for the developers’ creation of software that has spurred the growth of new applications over its more than dozen years of existence.

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