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Bill Cook Elected Member of the National Academy of Engineering
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In the
span of only three months, William J. “Bill” Cook, Chandler Family Chair and
professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems
Engineering, has been recognized by two of the
profession’s most distinguished bodies
for his theoretical and computational contributions to discrete
optimization. In November, the Institute for Operational Research and Management
Sciences named Cook as Fellow, and just this month the National Academy of Engineering
(NAE) announced Cook’s election as a member.
Election to the National Academy of
Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an
engineer. Academy membership honors those who have made outstanding
contributions to "engineering research, practice, or education, including,
where appropriate, significant contributions to the engineering
literature" and to the "pioneering of new and developing fields of technology,
making major advancements in traditional fields of engineering or
developing/implementing innovative approaches to engineering education."
Cook, known widely for his work with the
Traveling Salesman Problem and his research in combinatorial optimization and
integer programming, is
one of sixty-eight newly elected NAE members and nine foreign associates. Among
those newly elected, Cook joins two Georgia Tech alumni in this honor: Parker
H. "Pete" Petit (ME 1962, Masters in Engineering
Mechanics, 1964) and Linda Griffith (CE 1982). Within ISyE, Cook
shares this distinction with Ellis Johnson (1988), George L. Nemhauser (1986), H. Donald Ratliff (1996), William B. Rouse (1991) and Jeff Wu (2004).
In addition to his research interests in
combinatorial optimization and integer programming, Cook is also heavily
involved in research dealing with computational issues involved in treating
hard discrete problems such as large instances for the celebrated traveling
salesman problem. He is the author or editor of seven books, the latest due out
in this year, and the current editor-in-chief of the Mathematical
Programming Computation journal. Other awards include the I.E. Block
Community Lecturer prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied
Mathematics and the Beale-Orchard-Hays Prize for Excellence in Computational
Mathematical Programming.
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- Created By: Edie Cohen
- Created: 02/09/2011
- Modified By: Fletcher Moore
- Modified: 10/07/2016
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