{"62946":{"#nid":"62946","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Bill Cook Elected INFORMS Fellow","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWilliam J. Cook, Chandler Family Chair and professor\nin the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, was\nelected INFORMS Fellow at the 2010 INFORMS annual meeting in Austin, Texas, in November.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe INFORMS Fellow\nAward is reserved for distinguished individuals who have demonstrated\noutstanding and exceptional accomplishments and experience in operations\nresearch and the management sciences. Their service to the profession and to\nINFORMS has culminated in election to the INFORMS Fellow Award. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ECook,\nknown widely for his work with the Traveling Salesman Problem and his\nresearch in combinatorial optimization and\ninteger programming, was elected for his research contributions in both areas.\u0026nbsp; Cook is one of eleven Fellows elected this\nyear. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to his research\ninterests in combinatorial optimization and integer programming, Cook is also\nheavily involved in research dealing with computational issues involved in\ntreating hard discrete problems such as large instances for the celebrated\ntraveling salesman problem. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ECook is the author or editor of\nseven books, the latest due out in 2011, and the current editor-in-chief of the\n\u003Cem\u003EMathematical\nProgramming Computation\u003C\/em\u003E journal. His\nawards, in addition to his election as INFORMS Fellow, include the I.E. Block Community Lecturer prize from the Society for\nIndustrial and Applied Mathematics and the Beale-Orchard-Hays Prize for\nExcellence in Computational Mathematical Programming.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ECook joins a\ndistinguished list, including the following twelve other ISyE faculty members\nwho have achieved this recognition: \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Jan Shi\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDr. John Bartholdi \u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDr. Jim Dai\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDr. Augustine Esogbue\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDr. John Jarvis \u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDr. Ellis Johnson \u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDr. George Nemhauser \u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDr. Donald Ratliff \u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDr. William Rouse\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDr. Michael Thomas \u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDr. Chelsea White III\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDr. Jeff Wu\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWilliam J. Cook, Chandler Family Chair and professor\nin the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, was\nelected INFORMS Fellow at the 2010 INFORMS annual meeting in Austin, Texas, in November.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Bill Cook Elected INFORMS Fellow"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-11-23 15:12:18","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:50","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-11-23T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-11-23T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"62941":{"id":"62941","type":"image","title":"Susan Albin, INFORMS president, presents plaque to Bill Cook.","body":null,"created":"1449176409","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:00:09","changed":"1475894549","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:29","alt":"Susan Albin, INFORMS president, presents plaque to Bill Cook.","file":{"fid":"191614","name":"Albin_Cook.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Albin_Cook_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Albin_Cook_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2214987,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Albin_Cook_0.jpg?itok=3jNENiZj"}}},"media_ids":["62941"],"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":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"6204","name":"INFORMS"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"}],"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 \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}