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ARTHUR F. VEINOTT JR.
Pages 330-333

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... He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi, and Omicron Delta Kappa. He went on to Columbia University where, in 1960, he earned a PhD in industrial engineering with specialization in operations research; his thesis supervisor was Cyrus Derman, with whom he maintained a lifelong friendship.
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... He was arguably a master of the entire contemporary OR field, making significant contributions to special topics such as inventory theory, supply chain management, dynamic programming, and lattice programming, all of which were deepened and broadened by his comprehensive scholarship. From 2001 to 2004 Pete was also a principal investigator and codirector of the General Motors/Stanford Collaborative Research Laboratory in Work Systems, an initiative that exemplifies how industrial issues and academic interests can be brought together to address problems of practical importance.
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... VEINOTT JR. 333 Elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1986, Pete received the von Neumann Theory Prize in 2007 "for his profound contributions to three major areas of operations research and management science: inventory theory, dynamic programming, and lattice programming." He became a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1970 and of INFORMS in 2002.
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