The 2014 Virtual Reality Technical Achievement Award goes to Doug A. Bowman of the Center for Human-Computer Interaction at Virginia Tech, USA, in recognition of research and design achievements that have significantly advanced knowledge in the fields of 3D user interfaces and virtual reality. Professor Bowman’s work on 3D UIs has resulted in both important interaction technique designs and a d...

This special issue of Interfaces is devoted to the finalists of the 36th annual competition for the Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences, the profession’s prestigious award for the practice of operations research. Brian Denton, chair of the competition, and ManMohan S. Sodhi, editor of this special issue, provide an overview of the competition a...

The title of this piece refers to Newton’s only known modest remark: “If I have seen farther than other men, it was because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.” Since he himself was so much greater than his predecessors, he was in fact standing on the shoulders of dwarfs, a much less attractive metaphor. I intend no comparisons with Newton inwhat follows: NLP/CL has noNewtons and noNobel...

I t was my pleasure to serve as chairman of the 26th annual competition for the Franz Edelman Award for Management Science Achievement. The competition is sponsored jointly by INFORMS and its practice section, the College for the Practice of the Management Sciences (CPMS). The primary purpose of the competition is to recognize outstanding accomplishments in the practice of our profession. The p...