{"id":591,"date":"2009-02-23T08:23:22","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T12:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=591"},"modified":"2009-02-23T08:23:22","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T12:23:22","slug":"kurt-spielberg-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/02\/23\/kurt-spielberg-passing\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Spielberg Passing"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is news from Monique Guignard<\/a>, via a complicated path, that Kurt Spielberg has passed away, struck by a passing car outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art.\u00a0 Kurt did a lot of work on how to make integer programming and relaxation methods really work in practice. \u00a0 This work started in the 60s and continued right to the present. I did not know Kurt, but I continually came across his work whenever I thought I had a good idea (particularly when I was working on lagrangian relaxations):\u00a0 typically Kurt got there decades before I did.<\/p>\n

Annals of Operations Research<\/em> has recently published an article<\/a> by Kurt on his 40+ years at IBM (my university subscribes, of course, but I did find a copy on the web<\/a>).\u00a0 It is a fascinating story!\u00a0 Kurt was one (the last?) of the “old style” people in operations research who began in physics and simply started solving operations research problems.\u00a0 What a career Kurt had!\u00a0He retired from IBM in 1990, but continued to be active in consulting, contract work, and grant support for his remaining years\u00a0The paper shows his enthusiasm for optimization remained clear to the end.<\/p>\n

Viewing Wednesday evening 7 to 9pm and Thursday morning 9 to 10am in the Schetter Funeral Home 304 W. Rt. 70, Cherry Hill, NJ. Mass of Christian Burial Thursday 11am in St. Peter Celestine RC Church, Cherry Hill, NJ. Interment Colestown Cemetery Cherry Hill, NJ.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is news from Monique Guignard, via a complicated path, that Kurt Spielberg has passed away, struck by a passing car outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art.\u00a0 Kurt did a lot of work on how to make integer programming and relaxation methods really work in practice. \u00a0 This work started in the 60s and continued … Continue reading “Kurt Spielberg Passing”<\/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":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","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=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}