The Beginnings of Operations Research in the United States

Philip M. Morse

Operations Research, 1986, vol. 34, issue 1, 10-17

Abstract: This paper, drawn from the author's autobiography, gives an account of the events leading up to the creation of the first operations research group in the United States, and describes how it approached its first problem, improving antisubmarine warfare operations off the Atlantic coast of the United States.

Keywords: 442 antisubmarine warfare; 601 origin of operations research in the United States (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1986
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