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Leonard Kleinrock was one of four recipients of the distinguished 2001 Charles Stark Draper Prize, the engineering profession's highest honor presented by the National Academy of Engineering. Kleinrock, Vinton Cerf, Rogert Kahn and Lawrence Roberts shared the $500,000 award for their individual efforts in developing the Internet.
Initially developed as a tool to link research-center computers, the Internet has become a vital instrument of social change, affecting educational pursuits, personal communications and international economies. Today, the Internet connects people in 65 countries and is a familiar and expedient resource for young and old alike.
"For more than 150 million users worldwide, the Internet has changed the way people communicate, conduct business and access information," said NAE President William A. Wulf. "It is an achievement that deservedly joins the ranks of previous Draper Prize honors, such as the semiconductor microchip, the jet engine, satellite technology and fiber optics."
Kleinrock is professor of computer science at UCLA and chief executive officer, chair and founder of Nomadix, an Internet start-up company in the Los Angeles area. Kleinrock created the basic principles of packet switching — the technology that routes a message from computer to computer until it reaches its final destination — while a graduate student at MIT. He directed the transmission of the first message ever to pass over the Internet.
Barry Smith has been appointed to the position of chief scientist at Sabre. In this newly created position, Smith will continue to lead the Sabre Research Group, which conducts proof-of-concept projects for new Sabre products with great emphasis on decision support systems. The group also provides internal and external consulting in the areas of optimization, forecasting and algorithms.
"Barry has been a tremendous asset to Sabre by forming what I consider the best Operations Research and Algorithms group in the industry," said Craig Murphy, chief technology officer for Sabre. "His contributions will help lead Sabre's strategic efforts of becoming the world's leading provider of technology and marketing services for the travel industry."
Smith has served in various roles for Sabre during his more than 20-year tenure with the company. While at Sabre, Smith developed many of the yield management techniques that are currently used throughout the airline industry and pioneered the application of yield management in other industries.
In 1996, Smith began the Sabre Research Group. Under his direction, the group has made several significant contributions to Sabre, including the creation of algorithms for airline scheduling, marketing and operations, as well as travel distribution.
Smith holds a master's degree in operations research from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.
Smith is the recipient of the prestigious Edelman Prize for the yield management work he has completed for American Airlines, and is the past president of the Airline Operations Research Professional Society.
Andy Boyd has been promoted to senior vice president of Research and Design at PROS Revenue Management, Inc.
Boyd joined PROS Revenue Management in January of 1997, leaving a tenured faculty position in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Texas A&M University following a 10-year academic career. Reporting to the chairman and CEO of PROS, Boyd is responsible for all OR, statistical and economic research and design efforts for PROS products across all industries.
PROS Revenue Management is the world leader in pricing and revenue optimization solutions and the pioneer and dominant provider of revenue management to the airline industry. PROS provides system solutions to the airline, cargo, rail, energy, healthcare and broadcast industries, and has delivered more than 180 systems to more than 82 clients in 37 countries.
Rick Rosenthal is a visiting senior scientist in the Decision Technologies Department of Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto, California while on sabbatical leave for 2001 from the Operations Research Department of the Naval Postgraduate School. HP Labs is the central research organization of Hewlett Packard. DTD's research is inspired by industrial problems, inside and outside of HP, in a wide range of areas, including storage systems, network design and operation, manufacturing, supply chain, analytic customer relationship management, e-services and a recent HP initiative called World e-Inclusion. World e-Inclusion is broadening access to social and economic opportunities in traditionally excluded markets, with an emphasis on the rural poor in developing nations.
Rosenthal has been on the NPS faculty since 1984 and recently served as chairman of the 40-member OR Department.
P. George Benson, dean of the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business, was named a fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute at the organization's annual meeting in Orlando. As the highest honor awarded by DSL, the designation has been given to fewer than 100 men and women in the group's history.
Benson was singled out for his many contributions in the teaching of managerial statistics and decision sciences; for his influential work in the ongoing series of professional conferences called "Making Statistics More Effective in Schools of Business"; for his research contributions in forecasting and probability assessment; and for co-authoring one of the leading textbooks in business statistics.
Benson, who holds the Simon S. Selig Jr. Chair for Economics Growth and a faculty appointment in the Department of Management, has been active in the Decision Sciences Institute for 25 years.
Randall K. Spoeri Ph.D. and Laurence L. George were two of 26 quality professionals named as Fellows of the American Society for Quality this year. To attain the rank of Fellow, candidates must achieve distinction in his or her accomplishments professionally and within the Society.
Spoeri, vice president of Medical and Quality Informatics at HIP Health Plans, was recognized for pioneering quality measurement/management concepts and statistical methods. In addition, he has served the ASQ in various leadership roles, including founding member, officer and chair of the Health Care Division.
George, sole proprietor of Problem Solving Tools, was recognized for extensive contributions to statistical analysis in reliablity and quality, including special emphasis in field reliability, and for major efforts in applied teaching and publications.
Spoeri and George will be awarded May 7th at ASQ's 54th Annual Quality Congress in Indianapolis..
Tatsuya Suda, a professor of information and computer science at U.C. Irvine, has been named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the world's largest engineering society. Cited for his contributions to the advancement of high-speed networks, Suda is one of the world's leading authorities in the field of computer networks. He is widely regarded for his research on high-speed multimedia networks, wireless and mobile systems, Internet traffic control and a new network architecture based on biological concepts and principals.
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