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Philip M. Morse and the Beginnings

MIT Sloan School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142
jlittle{at}mit.edu

Morse was the many-sided founding father of operations research in the United States. Following his pioneering wartime effort, he vigorously promoted the nonmilitary development of the field. A glimpse into his activities and accomplishments helps explain the vitality and high intellectual standards of the field.

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