Tuesday, June 29, 2004

Operation everything I went to a logistics society meeting once - guess it might have been put on by the Institute for Operations Research and the Managment Sciences, and was struck! This was cybernetics on a very large level - and probably operations is what cybernetics came to be. I headed out toward a special report on supply chain and ERP. The world little noted. Engines and algorithms. That seems to be what is discovered here by writer Postrel. She speaks with Irv Lustig of iLog. She shows the WWII roots of O.R. as a way of brining mathematical thought to warfare - which rings especially cause Jake and I recently watched The Fog of War with Mr. O.R. [Robert Strange MacNamara]. She shows its use in Monte Carlo bus schedules, in Walmart RFID strategies, and as a Liberal Science of the 21st Century.  By Virginia Postrel  |  June 27, 2004 | Boston Globe 9:07:15 PM    comment []

Oppy we must examine your myth Most significant scientific project to date: The Invention of the Atomic Bomb. Man at the Helm: Robert Oppenheimer [well let us not forget Leslie Groves but let us realize that the MacArthyites never got it in their loins to go after Leslie - Uniforms count!]. Anyway his 100th birthday would have been in April, and it has proved an occassion for American Heritage types to have convocations and think about what it means. Lets go to Los Alamos! SCIENCE | June 29, 2004     Oppenheimer Celebration By SANDRA BLAKESLEE   (NYT)   News   8:47:16 PM    comment []

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