Edmund W. Schuster Edmund W. Schuster has held the appointment of Director of the Affiliates Program in Logistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a research engineer at the MIT Laboratory for Manufacturing and… Read More

Pinaki Kar is currently an independent consultant working in the pharmaceutical industry on analysis and modeling to support strategic planning, business development, and marketing. He is interested in the application of operations research and statistical techniques for planning and decision support across a wide range of business issues. His experience spans multiple industries that include pharmaceutical, chemical, high tech, and insurance.… Read More

David L. Brock is Principal Research Scientist at MIT and cofounder of and a Director at the Auto-ID Center (now EPCglobal, Inc. and Auto-ID Laboratories). The center was an international research consortium formed as a partnership among more than 100 global companies and five leading research universities. Dr. Brock is also Assistant Research Professor of Surgery at Tufts University Medical School and Founder and Chief Technology Officer of… Read More

Stuart J. Allen is Professor Emeritus, Penn State Erie, the Behrend College. He works on design of decision aids for application in manufacturing environments. He has a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Wisconsin, a master of mechanical engineering degree from Seattle University, and a Ph.D. in engineering mechanics from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Allen has published over 50 journal articles in… Read More