The Operations Research Society of America—The Lanchester Prize Committee

Abstract

Announcement was made at the May, 1954 meeting of the S ociety , and in the August, 1954 issue of the J ournal , of the J ohns H opkins U niversity L anchester P rize of $1,000 to be awarded each year for “the best paper on operations research or reporting on an operations-research study, identified as such.” The Council of the S ociety has established a Prize Committee to make recommendations for the awarding of this prize for the calendar year 1954. Operations Research , ISSN 0030-364X, was published as Journal of the Operations Research Society of America from 1952 to 1955 under ISSN 0096-3984.