{"71776":{"#nid":"71776","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Bill Cook Elected Member of NAE","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWilliam J. \u201cBill\u201d Cook, Chandler Family Chair and professor in the\nH. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE), and adjunct professor in the School of\n    Mathematics, was\nelected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for his\ntheoretical and computational contributions to discrete optimization during the\n2011 NAE Annual Meeting held on October 16 and 17.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EElection to the National Academy of Engineering is among the\nhighest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer.\u0026nbsp; Academy\nmembership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to\n\u0022engineering research, practice, or education, including, where\nappropriate, significant contributions to the engineering literature\u0022 and\nto the \u0022pioneering of new and developing fields of technology, making\nmajor 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 Traveling Salesman Problem\nand his research in combinatorial optimization and integer programming, is one\nof sixty-eight newly elected NAE members and nine foreign associates. Among\nthose newly elected, Cook joins two Georgia Tech alumni in this honor:\u0026nbsp;\nParker H.\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 shares\nthis distinction with \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/profile.php?entry=ej8\u0022\u003EEllis\nJohnson\u003C\/a\u003E (1988), \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/profile.php?entry=gn3\u0022\u003EGeorge\nL. Nemhauser\u003C\/a\u003E (1986), \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/profile.php?entry=hr10\u0022\u003EH.\nDonald Ratliff\u003C\/a\u003E (1996), \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/profile.php?entry=wr2\u0022\u003EWilliam\nB. 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).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\n\nIn addition to his research\ninterests in combinatorial optimization and integer programming, Cook isalso\nheavily involved in research dealing with computational issues involved in\ntreating hard discrete problems such as large instances for the celebrated\ntraveling salesman problem. He is the author or editor of seven books, the\nlatest due out in 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\u003EBill Cook was\nelected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for his\ntheoretical and computational contributions to discrete optimization during the\n2011 NAE Annual Meeting.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27511","created_gmt":"2011-10-24 16:08:53","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:10:34","author":"Ashley Daniel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-11-11T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2011-11-11T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"72046":{"id":"72046","type":"image","title":"From Left to Right: Dr. Irwin M. 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