IFORS Hall of Fame (operations research)

Jewish recipients of the IFORS Hall of Fame (operations research) documented in the ThankJews directory. Jews are about 52% of all recipients — while making up roughly 0.2% of the world's population.

52%of all recipients are Jewish

12 documented recipients

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George Dantzig1914

Developed the simplex algorithm for linear programming.

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science

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Richard Bellman1920

Invented dynamic programming.

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science

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Leonid Kantorovich1912

Founded linear programming; Nobel laureate in economics.

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science

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Ralph Gomory1984

Invented the cutting-plane method of integer programming; von Neumann Theory Prize (1984)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the von Neumann Theory Prize

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Kenneth Arrow1972

Economist who proved the impossibility theorem of social choice and, with Gérard Debreu, the existence of a general equilibrium in a competitive economy; Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 1972

Source: Wikipedia — Kenneth Arrow / NobelPrize.org Economic Sciences 1972

HR

Howard Raiffa1924

Pioneer of decision theory, negotiation analysis, and applied game theory

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Political Philosophy & Science

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John von Neumann1945

Computer Architecture and Game Theory

Source: Manhattan Project / Princeton

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Herbert Simon1978

Social scientist of administrative decision-making and bounded rationality, and with Allen Newell a pioneer of artificial intelligence; Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 1978

Source: Wikipedia — Herbert A. Simon / NobelPrize.org Economic Sciences 1978

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Russell Ackoff1919

Pioneer of operations research and systems thinking; IFORS Hall of Fame

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish members of the IFORS Hall of Fame

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Egon Balas1995

Holocaust survivor who founded disjunctive programming in integer optimization; von Neumann Theory Prize (1995)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the von Neumann Theory Prize

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Abraham Charnes1982

Co-founder of applied linear programming and data envelopment analysis; von Neumann Theory Prize (1982)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the von Neumann Theory Prize

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William Cooper1982

Co-creator of data envelopment analysis and goal programming; von Neumann Theory Prize (1982)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the von Neumann Theory Prize