{"64156":{"#nid":"64156","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Bill Cook Elected Member of the National Academy of Engineering","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn the\nspan of only three months, William J. \u201cBill\u201d Cook, Chandler Family Chair and\nprofessor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems\nEngineering, has been recognized by two of the\nprofession\u2019s most distinguished bodies\nfor his theoretical and computational contributions to discrete\noptimization. In November, the Institute for Operational Research and Management\nSciences named \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/news-events\/news\/release.php?nid=62946\u0022\u003ECook\u003C\/a\u003E as Fellow, and just this month the National Academy of Engineering\n(NAE) announced Cook\u2019s election as a member. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EElection to the National Academy of\nEngineering is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an\nengineer.\u0026nbsp; Academy membership honors those who have made outstanding\ncontributions to \u0022engineering research, practice, or education, including,\nwhere appropriate, significant contributions to the engineering\nliterature\u0022 and to the \u0022pioneering of new and developing fields of technology,\nmaking major advancements in traditional fields of engineering or\ndeveloping\/implementing innovative approaches to engineering education.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ECook, known widely for his work with the\nTraveling Salesman Problem and his research in combinatorial optimization and\ninteger programming, is\none of sixty-eight newly elected NAE members and nine foreign associates. Among\nthose newly elected, Cook joins two Georgia Tech alumni in this honor:\u0026nbsp; Parker\nH.\u0026nbsp;\u0022Pete\u0022 Petit\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003E(ME 1962, Masters in Engineering\nMechanics, 1964)\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003Eand Linda Griffith (CE 1982). Within ISyE, Cook\nshares this distinction with \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/profile.php?entry=ej8\u0022\u003EEllis Johnson\u003C\/a\u003E (1988), \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/profile.php?entry=gn3\u0022\u003EGeorge L. Nemhauser\u003C\/a\u003E (1986), \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/profile.php?entry=hr10\u0022\u003EH. Donald Ratliff\u003C\/a\u003E (1996), \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/profile.php?entry=wr2\u0022\u003EWilliam B. Rouse\u003C\/a\u003E (1991) and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/profile.php?entry=cw219\u0022\u003EJeff Wu\u003C\/a\u003E (2004). \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to his research interests in\ncombinatorial optimization and integer programming, Cook is also heavily\ninvolved in research dealing with computational issues involved in treating\nhard discrete problems such as large instances for the celebrated traveling\nsalesman problem. He is the author or editor of seven books, the latest due out\nin this year, and the current editor-in-chief of the \u003Cem\u003EMathematical\nProgramming Computation\u003C\/em\u003E journal. Other awards include the I.E. Block\nCommunity Lecturer prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied\nMathematics and the Beale-Orchard-Hays Prize for Excellence in Computational\nMathematical Programming.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn the\nspan of only three months, William J. \u201cBill\u201d Cook, Chandler Family Chair and\nprofessor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems\nEngineering, has been recognized by two of the\nprofession\u2019s most distinguished bodies\nfor his theoretical and computational contributions to discrete\noptimization. In November, the Institute for Operational Research and Management\nSciences named Cook as Fellow, and just this month the National Academy of Engineering announced Cook\u2019s election as a member.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Bill Cook Elected Member of the National Academy of Engineering"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2011-02-09 12:55:38","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:08:10","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-02-09T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2011-02-09T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"63199":{"id":"63199","type":"image","title":"Bill Cook","body":null,"created":"1449176668","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:04:28","changed":"1475894554","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:34","alt":"Bill Cook","file":{"fid":"191775","name":"Cook-William_th.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Cook-William_th_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Cook-William_th_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":20638,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Cook-William_th_0.jpg?itok=GNta-CG5"}}},"media_ids":["63199"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"11342","name":"Bill Cook"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"1972","name":"NAE"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara \nChristopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}