Author List
- Kenneth J. Arrow, Stanford University (Nobel Prize in Economics, 1972): Optimal Inventory Policy
- Robert E. Bixby, Rice University: Solving Real-World Linear Programs
- Alfred Blumstein, Heinz School of Public Policy and Management of Carnegie Mellon University: Crime Modeling
- Seth Bonder, Chairman and CEO (retired), Vector Research, Inc.: Army Operations Research
- William W. Cooper, Graduate School of Business of the University of Texas at Austin: Industrial Uses of Linear Programming
- George Dantzig, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University: Linear Programming - How It Began
- Stuart Dreyfus, Professor Emeritus of the University of California at Berkeley: The Birth of Dynamic Programming
- Charles D. Flagle, Professor Emeritus, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health: Operations Research in Health Services
- Saul I. Gass, Professor Emeritus, Robert H. Smith School of Business and Management, University of Maryland, College Park: The First Linear Programming Shoppe
- Denos Gazis, PASHA Industries: The Origins of Traffic Theory
- Ralph Gomory, President, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation: Early Integer Programming
- K. Brian Haley, University of Birmingham: OR in Great Britain
- William W. Hogan, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University: Energy Modeling for Policy Studies
- Charles C. Holt, Professor Emeritus, Red McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin: How to Plan Production, Inventories and Work Force
- Ronald A. Howard, Stanford University Graduate School of Business: Markov Decision Processes
- Wayne P. Hughes, Dean, Graduate School of Operational & Information Science, Naval Postgraduate School: Navy Operations Research
- James R. Jackson, Professor Emeritus, UCLA: How Networks of Queues Came About
- Samuel Karlin, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University: Interdisciplinary Meandering in Science
- Glenn Kent, RAND: Looking Back
- Leonard Kleinrock, UCLA Computer Science Department: Mathematical Theory of Computer Networks
- Harold M. Kuhn, Professor Emeritus, Princeton University: Being in the Right Place at the Right Time
- Richard C. Larson, Director, the Center for Advanced Educational Services, MIT: Public Sector Operations Research
- John D. C. Little, Institute Professor, MIT Sloan School: Philip M. Morse and the Beginnings of OR
- John F. Magee, CEO (retired), Arthur D. Little, Inc.: Operations Research at Arthur D. Little, Inc.
- Harry M. Markowitz, President, Harry Markowitz Co. (Nobel Prize in Economics, 1990): Efficient Portfolios, Sparse Matrices, and Entities: A Retrospective
- Richard E. Nance, Systems Research Center, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and Robert G. Sargent, Professor Emeritus, Syracuse University: Evolution of Simulation
- The late Gordon Newell, University of California at Berkeley: Highway Traffic Flow Theory
- Howard Raiffa, Harvard Business School, and the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University: Decision Analysis: A Personal Account of How It Got Started and Evolved
- Herbert E. Scarf, Yale University: Inventory Theory
- Martin Shubik, Yale University: Game Theory and Operations Research
- Shaler Stidham, Jr., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Queueing Systems
- Harvey M. Wagner, the Keenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: And Then There Were None
- Peter Whittle, Cambridge University: Applied Probability in Great Britain
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