{"id":518,"date":"2009-01-15T23:47:11","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T03:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=518"},"modified":"2009-01-15T23:47:11","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T03:47:11","slug":"acm-fellows-and-operations-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/01\/15\/acm-fellows-and-operations-research\/","title":{"rendered":"ACM Fellows and Operations Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery) has announced <a href=\"http:\/\/fellows.acm.org\/\">44 new Fellows<\/a>.\u00a0 A number of them are well-known in the operations research community (some are just plain well-known:\u00a0 can it be that <a href=\"http:\/\/fellows.acm.org\/\">Stephen Cook<\/a> of NP-completeness fame was not a Fellow before now?).\u00a0 These include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.cmu.edu\/~sandholm\/\">Tuomas Sandholm<\/a>, Carnegie Mellon.\u00a0 Tuomas does an amazing number of things very well.\u00a0 He is an ideal faculty member raising money, training students, and so on.\u00a0 He also runs a company:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.combinenet.com\/\">CombineNet<\/a>.\u00a0 Much, but not all, of his work is in combinatorial auctions, and he has really revolutionized that area.\u00a0 He also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.cmu.edu\/~sandholm\/hobbies.html\">windsurfs<\/a>.\u00a0 He is someone I am jealous of.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www-math.mit.edu\/~goemans\/\">Michel Goemans<\/a>, MIT.\u00a0 Has done amazing work in approximation algorithms.\u00a0 I am not a huge fan of approximation algorithms:\u00a0 I like solving real problems and it is not clear that a factor of 2 approximation is of much use, much less a log x\/log log x approximation.\u00a0 And while many approximation papers give lip-service to the applications of the models they work with, very rarely are approximation algorithms implemented.\u00a0 That said, Michel does what I admire more than anything:\u00a0 he finds truly new and creative approaches to problems.\u00a0 When Michel finds a new approach (which he seems to do every two years or so), it is worth learning about because his approaches generally lead to a very rich a productive research vein.\u00a0 I am jealous of Michel too.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.princeton.edu\/~arora\/\">Sanjeev Arora<\/a>, Princeton.\u00a0 Unlike Tuomas and Michel, I do not know Sanjeev personally, so I cannot be jealous of him.\u00a0 But I certainly know his work on randomized approaches to hard problems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So congrats to all the new Fellows!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery) has announced 44 new Fellows.\u00a0 A number of them are well-known in the operations research community (some are just plain well-known:\u00a0 can it be that Stephen Cook of NP-completeness fame was not a Fellow before now?).\u00a0 These include: Tuomas Sandholm, Carnegie Mellon.\u00a0 Tuomas does an amazing number of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/01\/15\/acm-fellows-and-operations-research\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ACM Fellows and Operations Research&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","category-prizes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}