| Article ID: | iaor19931641 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 40 |
| Issue: | 6 |
| Start Page Number: | 1031 |
| End Page Number: | 1039 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 1992 |
| Journal: | Operations Research |
| Authors: | Harris Carl M. |
| Keywords: | computers |
Rapid changes in both hardware and software computer technology pose many challenges to quantitative applications, and especially to operations research. Much of the future success of Operational Research OR will depend on its ability to meet these challenges by marrying its approaches to computer technology and then using this enhanced capability to reach out to important new problem areas. To support the contention that Operational Research OR is moving in these directions, as it must, this paper begins by reviewing computating progress to date as it relates to Operational Research OR. Then it views three facets of the expansion of OR: university enrollments (and those on nonresident aliens in particular), application opportunities, and the dispersion of Operational Research OR people in large organizations. The paper is an outgrowth of a plenary lecture at the May 1991 TIMS/ORSA meeting in Nashville.