Postlude
Dan L. Ward
BILL MAKI AND I met at an annual HRPS conference in 1980. While the conference had many great speakers, a dozen “hard-core” modeling and forecasting enthusiasts slipped away to meet in a suite one afternoon for a few hours to share comments on their approaches to what was then still called “manpower” planning. This original “data dozen” included Dick Niehaus, Jim Sheridan, Walt Garrett, and Tom Bechet, as well as Bill and me. Jim Walker made a brief appearance, but as the founder of HRPS, he had other obligations during the conference.
As the youngest and least experienced participant in the room that day, I was awed by the other attendees. I had been invited because of my proficiency with Bell Lab’s Interactive Flow Simulator ...
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