William R. Pulleyblank is a Canadian and American operations researcher. He is a professor of operations research at the United States Military Academy (West Point), where he also holds the Class of 1950 Chair of Advanced Technology.[1]

Education and career

Pulleyblank obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo in 1973; his thesis, supervised by Jack Edmonds, concerned perfect matching theory from the point of view of polyhedral combinatorics.[2] He worked at IBM beginning in the late 1960s and then returned to academia in 1974,[3] as a professor at the University of Calgary, before moving back to Waterloo in 1982.[4] At Waterloo, he held the CP/NSERC Chair of Optimization and Computer Applications.[1][4] In 1990 he began a second stint at IBM, where his work included leading the Blue Gene project.[1][3] He was promoted to vice president in 2004,[4] and retired from IBM in 2010, at which time he joined the West Point faculty.[4][5]

Awards and honors

In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.[6] The College of Saint Rose, in Albany, New York, and McMaster University, in Ontario, Canada, have both given Pulleyblank honorary degrees. He is also a recipient of the Alberta Centennial Medal, a fellow of INFORMS, and (since 2010) a member of the National Academy of Engineering.[1][7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 William Pulleyblank, Ph.D., USMA Network Science Center, retrieved 2014-12-08.
  2. ↑ William R. Pulleyblank at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. 1 2 "A Talk with the Brain behind Blue Gene", BusinessWeek, November 6, 2001, archived from the original on December 11, 2014.
  4. 1 2 3 4 William Pulleyblank, Waterloo Combinatorics & Optimization, retrieved 2014-12-10.
  5. ↑ William Pulleyblank, Council of Canadian Academies, retrieved 2014-12-09.
  6. ↑ Anbil, Ranga; Forrest, John J.; Pulleyblank, William R. (1998). "Column generation and the airline crew pairing problem". Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. III. pp. 677–686.
  7. ↑ Dr. William Robert Pulleyblank, National Academy of Engineering member directory, retrieved 2014-12-09.
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