BALTIMORE, MD, April 7, 2025 – INFORMS, the world’s largest association for professionals and students in operations research (O.R.), AI, analytics and data science, announced it has awarded USA Cycling its 2025 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Advanced Analytics, Operations Research and Management Science, for its use of operations research (O.R.) and analytics in elite sports performance. With Project 4:05, USA Cycling transformed race strategy and athlete preparation, enabling the Women’s Team Pursuit to win gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
A bipartisan push in Congress would return the power to impose tariffs to the legislature.
The threat of a terrorist attack on America’s energy grid is growing, with attempts being reported at increasing rates. If it’s not terrorism, it could be adversarial nation-states. This all increases the likelihood that a significant attack on the grid could succeed, leaving large swaths of the U.S. in the dark.
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U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg promised Tuesday to help repair the East Coast’s main north-south highway as quickly as possible and said that the destruction of a section of I-95 will likely raise the cost of consumer goods because truckers must now travel longer routes.
TALLAHASSEE — Years of concerns by government and policy officials over the use of fake images, audio and videos in election cycles got a spotlight this past week after Gov. Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign dabbled in manipulated media.
Every decision a Ukrainian farmer makes right now is life or death. Not only do they need to be aware of the risks of living and operating in a war zone, but also the life-and-death challenges of being able to provide food to people in dire need. People may well die if the food supplies continue to dwindle as a consequence of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Earlier this year, New York Times columnist Kevin Roose conducted a two-hour conversation with Microsoft’s popular new chatbot, “Bing Chat.” Although the “conversation” started innocently enough, before it was over, the chatbot would declare its affection for Roose, telling him, “You’re not happily married, because you’re not happy. You’re not happy, because you’re not in love. You’re not in love, because you’re not with me.”
Texas is growing accustomed to experiencing system-wide power grid disruptions. The first recent major event was winter storm Uri in February 2021, which left 4.5 million homes in the dark, cost $195 billion in property damage, and caused the deaths of over 50 people due to a combination of factors stemming from generation technology failure (natural gas, coal, nuclear, wind and solar), natural gas shortages, transmission and substation outages, frequency issues, planned generator outages, and a lack of reserve capacity.1 Despite this stark warning sign of a lack of power grid resilience, climate change, along with electrification, economic growth and other geopolitical drivers, has caused increasing uncertainty in business as usual for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT).
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