I was trying to look up some biographical details of Franz Edelman, the namesake of our prestigious Edelman Award. The google AI summary let me know that he started his career as a lumberjack, which I figured was your standard AI fiction.
From the INFORMS biography page on Edelman, Franz
"Franz Edelman died suddenly on January 15, 1982. He learned about the capriciousness of life from his early experiences, fleeing to England from his native Germany at the age of 16, only to be interned as an alien and sent to Canada for an interlude of lumberjacking. He received his undergraduate education at McGill University, and he obtained a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Brown University."
If anyone would like to wear plaid to an INFORMS event in honor of him, I will join you!
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Zohar Strinka
Analytics Strategies LLC
Denver, CO
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