Arthur Fales Veinott Jr. (October 12, 1934 â December 12, 2012) was an American operations researcher and academic.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts on October 12, 1934.
He earned his Bachelors of Arts and Science degrees from Lehigh University in 1956. He studied at Columbia University and earned a Doctorate of Science in 1960, under the supervision of Cyrus Derman.
He died on December 12, 2012.
He first arrived at Stanford in 1962 and served until 2009 â a tenure of 47 years which is one of the longest in the history of Stanford engineering and perhaps in the university itself.
During his career, he played a key role in the creation and development of the Department of Operations Research, including serving as department chair from 1975 to 1985.
He supervised the doctoral dissertations of around 29 students.
He founded the journal Mathematics of Operations Research.
He received the INFORMS John von Neumann Theory Prize in 2007.
He was made an inaugural INFORMS Fellow in 2002.
He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1986.