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Did you know that drones can help provide medical care to rural communities? Or that analyzing historical data could provide key insight to fighting hate crime in today’s world? What is the real impact that legalizing marijuana could have on the tobacco and alcohol industries?
All across the globe, every single day, analytics, operations research, artificial intelligence, data science, and more are providing valuable insight to some of the world’s most complex problems, providing life- and cost-saving solutions and optimizing the way we live and work.
Resoundingly Human is a bi-weekly podcast that highlights the work of INFORMS members who are transforming the world around us, in ways both big and small.
Whether you are a member of one of the many science and mathematics communities, or are simply interested in learning more about how these fascinating contributions are impacting the world around you, Resoundingly Human will show you how the science and technology of decision making is saving lives, saving money, and solving problems!
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Artificial Intelligence
Every time we place an online order, an enormous number of decisions happen behind the scenes – where an item should be stored, how an order should be fulfilled, which route it should take and how it ultimately reaches our doorstep. Increasingly, operations research, optimization and artificial intelligence are helping make those decisions at a scale no human could manage alone. In this episode of Resoundingly Human: The INFORMS Podcast, Russell Allgor, Chief Supply Chain Scientist at Auger and a plenary speaker at the 2026 INFORMS Annual Meeting, shares just how many decisions are happening behind the products and services…
When we hear the word “optimization,” we tend to think about finding the best possible solution to a problem. But when those problems involve schools, communities, limited resources and competing priorities, defining what “best” actually means can become much more complicated. In this episode of Resoundingly Human: The INFORMS Podcast, Karen Smilowitz, Associate Provost and professor at Northwestern University with a joint appointment in the operations group at the Kellogg School of Management, and a plenary speaker at the 2026 INFORMS Annual Meeting, shares how operations research can be used to tackle complex problems with very real human consequences in…
Computers keep getting faster. But sometimes, taking full advantage of new computing power requires more than simply speeding up the way we’ve always done things. It requires rethinking the way we solve problems altogether. Welcome to Resoundingly Human: The INFORMS Podcast where we share how operations research, analytics, data science, and AI are helping us better understand – and improve – the world around us. Today’s guest has spent his career exploring how we can solve some of the most complex optimization problems more effectively. A professor at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech, Andrea Lodi will be joining…
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