December 2002 • Volume 29 Number 6 The following table of contents lists articles in the December 2002 print edition of OR/MS Today. You may follow any of the linked titles to read those items in their entirety. For quick navigation you may jump directly to any of the following sections: Departments Features INFORMS News Departments Inside Story President's Desk INFORMS Online Cyberspace Issues in Education Was It Something I Said? ORacle Real World Letters to the Editor Calendar New Books Call for Papers Industry Update Classifieds OR/MS Today now features Online Employment Classifieds Features Operations Research in the New Era of National Security By James Roche Secretary of the Air Force critiques recent military practices and issues a challenge to "reinvigorate" the discipline   Dynamic Forecasting Today By Roger Gung, Ying Tat Leung, Grace Lin and Roger Tsai New opportunities in e-business require practitioners to step beyond old boundaries and march into uncharted territory   The Paper Chase By Ravi Bapna and James R. Marsden Comparing the research productivity of quantitative/technical departments in business schools   Preaching What He Practices By Peter Horner Q&A: INFORMS President-Elect Tom Cook plans to focus on marketing the profession and educating consumers   Computing Software Review: LINDO API By Andy Felt Linear, quadratic, MIP callable library is a useful tool for Operations Research / Management Science practitioners who write their own computer code INFORMS News Practice Meeting Preview People In Memoriam: Keith Uncapher OR in the News Election Results Kimball Medals President's Award Writing Honors von Neumann Prize Teaching Award Dantzig Award Service Certificate Letters from Abroad INFORMS Fellows Meetings Don't forget the OR/MS Today Online Reader Service page! OR/MS Today Home Page OR/MS Today copyright © 2003 by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. All rights reserved. Lionheart Publishing, Inc. 506 Roswell Street, Suite 220, Marietta, GA 30060, USA Phone: 770-431-0867 | Fax: 770-432-6969 E-mail: lpi@lionhrtpub.com URL: http://www.lionhrtpub.com Web Site © Copyright 2003 by Lionheart Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved.