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William W. Cooper

American academic (1914-2012) · United States · On the map · Academics · Died at 97

William Wager Cooper was an American operations researcher, known as a father of management science and as "Mr. Linear Programming".

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Awards

John von Neumann Theory Prize1982
Fellow of the Econometric Society1957
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

About this person

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.

Country
United States
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1914 to 2012 · aged 97