Pollock, Stephen M. (University of Michigan)

Topics:

Introduction to Search Theory and The Drunk and The Lost Quarter (Elementary

Recursion For Fun and Insight (Intermediate)

Measuring system performance with Conflicting Objectives (Intermediate)

Operations Research: A Liberal Education for a Technological World (General)

Background:

• B. Eng. Phys. - Cornell University
• M.S. Physics - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Ph.D. Physics/OR - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

At Arthur D. Little, Inc. 1964-65, on the faculty of the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School from 1965 to 1969 and at University of Michigan since then. He was chair of the IOE Department from 1981 through 1990.

Steve has been involved in teaching and applying a wide variety of operations research methods, with the aim of understanding and influencing operational phenomena in industrial and military settings, as well as in the public sector, medicine and biology. He has authored over 60 technical papers, co-edited two books, and has served as a consultant to over 30 industrial, governmental and service organizations.

He has been Associate Editor and Area Editor of Operations Research, Senior Editor of IIE Transactions, Associate Editor of Management Science and on the editorial boards of other journals. He has served on advisory boards for the National Science Foundation, was a member of the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics of the National Research Council and a member of the Army Science Board. He was President of ORSA in 1986, was awarded the 2001 INFORMS Kimball Medal and was named a founding INFORMS Fellow in 2002. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.