主题：鸠山同学是搞OR的出身？ -- 天王子

收到INFORM的newsletter,看来干这行的当国家领导人还是很少的

Japanese PM, Yukio HatoyamaOperations researchers have taken pride that our profession has prepared many of our best members to become business leaders and deans. Apparently, for the first time, we have now sent forth one of our own to become prime minister of a G-8 country.

On August 31, when the Democratic Party of Japan defeated the long-ruling Liberal Democrats, the party leader, Yukio Hatoyama, became the presumptive prime minister.

Dr. Hatoyama earned his PhD in operations research at Stanford University in the 1970s. His PhD advisor was the late Gerald Lieberman.

His fellow operations researchers at INFORMS wish him luck and success as he applies his analytical expertise to solving his country's economic challenges.

“for the first time”啊，OR的同志们终于出头了。作为同根生的OMer，同贺一把