AI and industrial engineering: History of a long partnership

By Adedeji B. Badiru

If we don’t write our own IE story, no one else will write it for us. So let’s give credit where credit is due. All the present hoopla about leveraging artificial intelligence in diverse areas is not new to the discipline of industrial engineering. I recall that in the incipient days of microcomputers, industrial engineering led the applications field through various theory and applications programs led by the late Dr. Gary E. Whitehouse of the University of Central Florida, under the auspices of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, which later became IISE.


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