{"75451":{"#nid":"75451","#data":{"type":"news","title":"The New York Times: The Problem of the Traveling Politician by Bill Cook","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWilliam J. \u201cBill\u201d\nCook, Chandler Family Chair and professor in the Stewart School of Industrial\nand Systems Engineering, and author of \u003Cem\u003EIn Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman:\nMathematics at the Limits of Computation \u003C\/em\u003E(January 2012),\u003Cem\u003E \u003C\/em\u003Erecently\nwrote an article for \u003Cem\u003EThe New York Times\u003C\/em\u003E titled \u201cThe Problem of the\nTraveling Politician.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe\ntraveling-salesman problem is one of the great unsolved problems in\nmathematics, capturing notions of complexity that are at the core of the\ninformation age. Using deep theory developed in the 1960s, an efficient method\nfor solving the T.S.P. would provide an efficient method for solving any\ncomputational problem for which it is easy to verify that an answer is correct.\nMost mathematicians expect this to be impossible, but no one knows for sure.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the article, Cook\nuses the traveling salesman problem, a specialty of his, to suggest optimal\ntravel routes that will save time and gasoline for those politicians who are\npreparing to hit the campaign trail.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\n\nTo see Cook\u2019s\nsuggested routes, and read the article in full, click \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/12\/21\/the-problem-of-the-traveling-politician\/\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBill Cook recently\nwrote an article for \u003Cem\u003EThe New York Times\u003C\/em\u003E titled \u201cThe Problem of the\nTraveling Politician,\u201d suggesting optimal\ntravel routes that will save time and gasoline for politicians who are\npreparing to hit the campaign trail.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27511","created_gmt":"2011-12-22 16:58:51","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:10:53","author":"Ashley Daniel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-12-22T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2011-12-22T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"75481":{"id":"75481","type":"image","title":"Cook\u0027s suggested routes for traveling politicians.","body":null,"created":"1449178055","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:35","changed":"1475894688","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:48","alt":"Cook\u0027s suggested routes for traveling politicians.","file":{"fid":"193806","name":"bill_cook_new_york_times.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bill_cook_new_york_times_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bill_cook_new_york_times_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":103389,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/bill_cook_new_york_times_0.jpg?itok=BFwScfYN"}}},"media_ids":["75481"],"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":"1202","name":"H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering"},{"id":"16151","name":"The New York Times"},{"id":"16161","name":"Traveling Salesman problem"}],"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 \/\u003E\nIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}