James Berger Orlin (born April 19, 1953)Curriculum vitae, accessed 2011-03-05. is an American operations researcher, the Edward Pennell Brooks Professor in Management and Professor of Operations Research at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Faculty biography, Sloan School, accessed 2011-03-05.
Biography Orlin did his undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania, receiving a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1974. In 1976, he earned two master's degrees, an MSc from California Institute of Technology and an MMath from University of Waterloo. Orlin received his Ph.D. in operations research from Stanford University in 1981 under the supervision of Arthur Fales Veinott Jr.. He joined the MIT faculty as an assistant professor in 1979, and became the Brooks Professor in 1998.
Selected works He is the author of the book Network Flows: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications (with Thomas L. Magnanti and Ravindra K. Ahuja, Prentice Hall, 1993), for which he and his co-authors were the recipients of the 1993 Frederick W. Lanchester Prize of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.Award recipients: James B. Orlin , INFORMS, accessed 2011-03-05.
Honors and awards He is also a Fellow of INFORMSINFORMS Fellows: Class of 2006 , accessed 2011-03-05. and a Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow, MIT's highest teaching honor..
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External links Jim Orlin's blog