# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-w-cooper
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:21:28.660Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-w-cooper"
name: "William W. Cooper"
slug: "william-w-cooper"
description: "William Wager Cooper was an American operations researcher, known as a father of management science and as \"Mr. Linear Programming\". He was the founding president of The Institute of Management Sciences, founding editor-in-chief of Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, a founding faculty member of the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, founding dean of the School of Urban and Public Affairs at CMU, the former Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Accounting at Harvard University, and the Foster Parker Professor Emeritus of Management, Finance and Accounting at the University of Texas at Austin."
tagline: "American academic (1914-2012)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Cooper_William_3.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1914-07-23"
deathDate: "2012-06-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.28
  momentum:             1.232876712328767
  historical:           4.805904
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ويليام دبليو. كوبر"
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    title: "ويليام دبليو. كوبر"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_W._Cooper"
    title: "William W. Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_W._Cooper"
    title: "William W. Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_W._Cooper"
    title: "William W. Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8019772"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump