{"id":12577,"date":"2013-11-17T13:26:55","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T17:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etherwave.wordpress.com\/?p=12577"},"modified":"2013-11-17T13:26:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T17:26:55","slug":"hiatus-operations-research-on-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/2013\/11\/17\/hiatus-operations-research-on-the-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiatus: Operations Research on the Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I have a number of things blog-related, some of them fairly exciting, that are cooking at the moment. \u00a0That said, site stats indicate there&#8217;s not as much interest in new posts as there was a year or two ago. \u00a0I don&#8217;t know if this is an across-the-board phenomenon with history of science blogs, or if it&#8217;s just a reflection of EWP posts&#8217; current pace and subject matter. \u00a0But, at any rate, it doesn&#8217;t seem like anyone will be terribly disappointed if I put new posts on the back-burner until the new year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">My main reason for doing this is that I have to commit my now-precious spare time to working on my longstanding interest in the intertwined histories of <\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color:#000000;\">operations research, systems analysis, decision theory, and the proliferation of scientific advisory positions during and after World War II. \u00a0Happily, I am now in a position where I have to format my book manuscript,\u00a0<em>Rational Action: The Sciences of Policy in Britain and America, 1940-1960<\/em>, for publication. Coincidentally, I have also recently been named to the History and Traditions Committee of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (<span style=\"color:#003366;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.informs.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color:#003366;\">INFORMS<\/span><\/a><\/span>), which should also take up a little time. \u00a0So, in addition to &#8220;machine philosophy&#8221; and other topics of the moment, look for a number of operations research-related goings-on in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a number of things blog-related, some of them fairly exciting, that are cooking at the moment. \u00a0That said, site stats indicate there&#8217;s not as much interest in new posts as there was a year or two ago. \u00a0I don&#8217;t know if this is an across-the-board phenomenon with history of science blogs, or if<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; Hiatus: Operations Research on the Brain<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/2013\/11\/17\/hiatus-operations-research-on-the-brain\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-operations-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}