Medal Awards 1998
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Medal Awards 1998 Beale Medal
Goodeve and President's Medals
The Beale Medal is named in memory of EML Beale and is awarded on an occasional basis. It is designed to give formal recognition to those who have made a sustained contribution to Operational Research, which may be to the philosophy, theory or practice of OR, or to some combination of these areas. The contribution should be such as to have advanced signi®cantly the knowledge, understanding or practice of the subject. The Beale Medal is only awarded to individual members of the OR Society who have made such a contribution over a period of at least ®ve years. In 1998 the Beale Medal is awarded to George Mitchell. George Mitchell followed Grammar School in Leicester by a Mathematics degree at Cambridge and then the Post Graduate Diploma in Statistics. He spent all his industrial career in the Coal Industry OR Group seeing it rise from about 30 to 135 strong and succeeding Rolfe Tomlinson as its Head. He oversaw many changes including introducing direct charging in return for budgetary independence. In the late 80s he became head of IT and OR (some 600 strongÐa reverse take-over?). In 1992 he engineered the outsourcing of the group to Hoskyns (now Cap Gemini). In 1993 he took (semi) retirement to become a visiting Professor of OR at LSE and editor of OMEGA. George was President of ORS in 1980=81 and previously Chairman of ERC. His publications include an in¯uential Presidential Address `Images of OR', `The six principles for successful OR' (with Rolfe Tomlinson) and a fascinating book `The Practice of OR'. George is much sought after as a (not so) elder statesman of OR, chairing the Commission on the Future Practice of OR, participating in many ORS committees and giving sound advice across British Academia. He is a regular participant at OR conferences across the World and a much deserved recipient of the Beale medal.
From 1998 onwards the eligibility for these medals has been extended to include articles in any of the Society's publications, i.e., the Journal, European Journal of Information Systems, OR Insight and The Newsletter.
Selected publications 1 Mitchell GH (1980). Images of OR. J Opl Res Soc 31: 459 ± 466. 2 Report of the Commission on the future practice of OR (1986). Mitchell GH (chairman) J Opl Res Soc 37: 833 ± 886. 3 Mitchell GH and Tomlinson RC (1979). Six principles for successful ORÐ their basis in practice. In: Haley KB (ed). OR 1978. North Holland, Amsterdam, pp 32 ± 52. 4 Mitchell GH (1993). The Practice of Operational Research. Wiley, Chichester.
Goodeve Medal In 1998 the Goodeve medal is awarded to D-W Tcha (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), T-J Choi (LG Telecome) and Y-S Myung (Dankook University) for their paper: `Location-area partition in a cellular radio network' (J Opl Res Soc 48: 1076 ± 1081, 1997). This is a technically very interesting paper in an increasingly important area of applicati
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