[Todos] Fwd: The Argentine chapter of the academic show (First letter)

[fabio vicentini]

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From: fabio vicentini <fmvicent en gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 8:36 AM
Subject: The Argentine chapter of the academic show (First letter)
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 Abstract. There are notions which are better apprehended by exhibiting
several actual cases. I intend to do that by a sequence of seven letters.
They are being sent to eighty three colleagues around the world.

*Lasciate** **ogni** **speranza**, **voi** *ch’*entrate** *(Dante)

 Buenos Aires, June 11, 2012


Dear Colleague:



 I spent 30 years (1963-1993) working as an operations research
practitioner in several industrial concerns, and I never met there an OR
colleague because they are doing basic research in the Academy and
submitting papers to peer-reviewed journals.

Then it occurred in 1995 that I landed up in the Academy myself where I
found that my colleagues were teaching Operations Research as it stood in
1950. Hence I asked the mathematics dept chairman to allow me to update the
OR course content. And so it was, I updated the course content, and Doktor
Hugo Scolnik, *Vice**-**President** of **IFORS,* and his wife Doktorin
Irene Loiseau - who were teaching the old stuff - returned to the computer
science dept where they belonged.

Lo and behold! some years later Mrs Loiseau was lecturing my OR course in
the computer science dept under a new name: Algorithms III. The time was
now ripe to supplant the old fool. Indeed Doktor Scolnik pointed out to the
Dean of the school that it did not make sense to have the same subject
taught in the math and the computer departments. Consequently I was
vanished from the school.

In the next letters I will described what I discovered in the Academy as an
operations researcher before being dismissed. (To be continued).

Fabio Vicentini, PhD
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