INFORMS Computing Society Prize

Purpose of the Award

The ICS Prize is an annual award for best English language paper or group of related papers dealing with the Operations Research/Computer Science interface. The award is accompanied by a certificate and a $1,000 honorarium.

Past Awardees

2012 First Place A. A. Ahmadi A. Olshevsky P. A. Parrilo J. N. Tsitsiklis
2011 First Place Dorit S. Hochbaum
2010 First Place Jesus De Lorea, University of California Jon Lee, IBM Research Peter Malkin Susan Margulies, Rice University Shmuel Onn, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
2009 First Place Andreas Wachter, IBM TJ Watson Research Center Lorenz T. Beigler, Carnegie Mellon University
2008 First Place Robert W. Day, University of Connecticut S. Raghavan, University of Maryland, Robert H Smith School of Business
2007 First Place Janos Csirik, AT&T Laboratories David S. Johnson, AT&T Bell Labs Claire Kenyon, Brown University James Orlin, Dept. of Operations Research, Stanford University Peter W. Shor, AT&T Labs Richard R. Weber, Cambridge University
2006 First Place John Drew Diane L. Evans, College of William and Mary Andrew G. Glen, United States Military Academy Lawrence Leemis, College of William and Mary
2005 First Place Zhiwei Fu, University of Maryland Bruce L. Golden, University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business Shreevardhan Lele, University of Maryland S. Raghavan, University of Maryland, Robert H Smith School of Business Edward A. Wasil, American University
2004 First Place Nikolaos V. Sahinidis, Carnegie Mellon University, Dept. of Chemical Engineering Mohit Tawarmalani, Purdue University
2003 First Place Ignacio Grossman, Carnegie Mellon University
2002 First Place Pascal Van Hentenryck, Brown University
2001 First Place Yin Zhang, Rice University Renato D.C. Monteiro, Georgia Institute of Technology
2000 First Place János D. Pintér, Ozyegin University
1999 First Place Yair Censor Stavros A. Zenios, University of Cyprus
1998 First Place Ding-Zhu Du Frank K. Hwang
1997 First Place Dimitri P. Bertsekas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
John N. Tsitsiklis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1996 First Place Warren P. Adams, Clemson University, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences Hanif D. Sherali, Virginia Polytechnic & State University, Industrial & Systems Engineering Dept.
1995 First Place John Forrest, IBM Donald Goldfarb, Columbia University
1994 First Place Fred W. Glover, OptTek Systems, Inc.
1993 First Place Robert Fourer, Northwestern University David Gay Brian Kernighan
1992 First Place Irvin Lustig, IBM Roy Marsten, Emcien Corporation David Shanno, Rutgers University
Masakazu Kojima, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mathematics & Computer Science Nimrod Megiddo, IBM Toshihito Noma, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Dept. of Information Sciences Akiko Yoshise, University of Tsukuba, Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering
1991 First Place John Hooker, Carnegie Mellon University
1988 First Place Alexander Meeraus , GAMS Development Corporation
1987 First Place Fred W. Glover, OptTek Systems, Inc. Darwin Klingman, University of Austin - Texas Marcel Neuts, University of Arizona
1986 First Place Harvey Greenberg
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Nomination Deadline

The deadline for submissions is July 31, 2012. View information about eligibility, procedures and deadlines
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Committee

2012 ICS Prize Committee:
  • Daniel Bienstock (Columbia University)
  • Dorit Hochbaum (University of California, Berkeley)
  • Pascal Van Hentenryck, Chair (NICTA)

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