William R. Pulleyblank

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. William Pulleyblank, Ph.D., USMA Network Science Center, retrieved 2014-12-08.
2. William R. Pulleyblank at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
3. "A Talk with the Brain behind Blue Gene", BusinessWeek, November 6, 2001, archived from the original on December 11, 2014.
4. William Pulleyblank、Waterloo Combinatorics & Optimization、2014年12月10日閲覧。
5. William Pulleyblank、カナダアカデミー評議会、2014年12月9日閲覧。
6. Anbil, Ranga; Forrest, John J.; Pulleyblank, William R. (1998). 「列生成と航空会社乗務員のペアリング問題」 . Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. III . pp.  677– 686.
7. William Robert Pulleyblank博士、米国工学アカデミー会員名簿、2014年12月9日閲覧。