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 | Name: Dr. Philip Wolfe |
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Research Staff Member Emeritus
Mathematical Sciences Department
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Yorktown Heights, New York 10598
DAB@watson.ibm.com
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| Credentials |
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| AB | 1948 | Mathematics and physics, highest honors, University of California-Berkeley |
| MA | 1950 | Mathematics, University of California-Berkeley |
| PhD | 1954 | Mathematics, University of California-Berkeley |
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| Principal employment |
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| 1945-47 | Instructor, Counterintelligence Corps (German language), U.S. Army |
| 1948-53 | University of California-Berkeley
Teaching assistant, mathematics
Atomic Energy Commission Predoctoral Fellow |
| 1953-54 | University of California-Los Angeles
Research assistant, Management Sciences Research Project |
| 1954-57 | Princeton University
Instructor, mathematics
Member, ONR Logistics Project
Member, Econometric Research Project |
| 1957-66 | RAND Corporation
Mathematician, Computer Science Department
Research in linear and nonlinear optimization; design of optimization software; leader, mathematics programmer team |
| 1966-96 | IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Research staff member, Mathematical Sciences Department
Manager, mathematical programming
Senior consultant
Assistant director/planning, Mathematical Sciences Department |
| 1996-99 | Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York
Industry professor of mathematics, Department of Mathematics |
| 1999-2001 | Polytechnic University and Columbia University
Alternated as adjunct professor |
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| Professional activities |
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| 1959-85 | Organizer or committee member for all International Symposia on Mathematical Programming, Nos. 3 through 12 |
| 1961 | Cofounder (with C.E. Miller), SIGMAP (Special Interest Group for Mathematical Programming), Association for Computing Machinery |
| 1970 | Cofounder (with M. Balinski), Mathematical Programming |
| 1971 | Cofounder, Mathematical Programming Society |
| 1972 | Founder, Friends of Optimization |
| 1978-80 | Chairman, Mathematical Programming Society |
| 1980-82 | Vice chairman, Mathematical Programming Society |
| 1978-present | Senior editor, Mathematical Programming |
| 1954-present | Member (past or current): ACM, AMS, Econometric Society, Mathematical Programming Society, ORSA/TIMS, SIAM |
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| Honors, awards, and publications |
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| 1947 | Phi Beta Kappa |
| 1948 | Roberts Prize in Mathematics |
| 1972 | Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science |
| 1974 | Invited address, International Congress of Mathematicians |
| 1983 | Fellow, The Econometric Society |
| 1985 | Distinguished Service Award, Mathematical Programming Society |
| 1992 | Von Neumann Prize, Operations Research Society of America and
The Institute for Management Sciences
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| 1993 | "Special Issues in Honor of Philip Wolfe": Nos. 1 and 2
of Vol. 62 of Mathematical Programming |
| 1954-present | 44 technical papers in refereed journals
51 other writings |
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| Interests |
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Carpentry
Theatrical performance
Hiking
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