Past winners

• 1954 Leslie C. Edie
• 1955 Georges Brigham
• 1956 Richard E. Zimmerman
• 1957 M. Allais, Clayton J. Thomas and Walter L. Deemer, Jr
• 1959 Robert E. Chandler, Robert Herman
  Robert Herman
  Robert Herman was a United States scientist, best known for his work with Ralph Alpher in 1948-50, on estimating the temperature of cosmic microwave background radiation from the Big Bang explosion....
  
  , Elliott Waters Montroll
  Elliott Waters Montroll
  Elliott Waters Montroll was an American scientist and mathematician.-Education:...
  
   and A.M. Lee
• 1960 Herman F. Karreman
• 1961 E. Ventura
• 1962 R.M. Oliver and A.H. Samuel
• 1963 P.C. Gilmore and Ralph E. Gomory
  Ralph E. Gomory
  Ralph Edward Gomory is an American applied mathematician and executive. Gomory worked at IBM as a researcher and later as an executive. During that time, his research led to the creation of new areas of applied mathematics....
  
  
• 1964 F.M. Scherer
• 1965 Michel Balinski and Rufus Isaacs
  Rufus Isaacs (game theorist)
  Rufus Philip Isaacs was a game theorist especially prominent in the 1950s and 1960s with his work on differential games.-Biography:...
  
  
• 1966 Stafford Beer
• 1967 Douglass J. Wilde and Charles S. Beightler
• 1968 Fiacco, McCormick
  McCormick
  McCormick, McCormack or MacCormack may refer to:People with the surname McCormick or McCormack:*McCormick *Cyrus McCormick, inventor*Robert R. McCormick, newspaper publisher*Lynde D...
  
   and Morse
  Morse
  Morse can refer to:* Morse code, a method of coding messages into long and short beeps-Places:Canada* Morse , Saskatchewan* Morse, Saskatchewan, a hamlet* Morse No...
  
  
• 1969 Harvey M. Wagner
• 1971 E.E. David, J.G. Truxal and E.J. Piel
• 1972 Richard C. Larson
• 1974 Peter Kolesar and Warren E. Walker
• 1975 Lawrence D. Stone
• 1976 Ralph Keeney, Howard Raiffa
  Howard Raiffa
  Howard Raiffa is the Frank P. Ramsey Professor of Managerial Economics, a joint chair held by the Business School and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University...
  
   and Leonard Kleinrock
  Leonard Kleinrock
  Leonard Kleinrock is an American engineer and computer scientist. A computer science professor at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, he made several important contributions to the field of computer networking, in particular to the theoretical side of computer networking...
  
  
• 1977 Karp
  Karp
  -People:*Algo Kärp , Estonian cross-country skier*Barrie Karp , U.S. philosopher and visual artist*Bob Karp , U.S. comics writer*Brad S. Karp , U.S. litigator*Carol Karp , U.S...
  
  , Cornuejols, Fisher
  Fisher
  Fisher is an archaic term for fisherman, revived as gender-neutral.Fisher or Fishers may also refer to:*Fisher , a North American mustelid*Fisher , a rock band featuring Kathy Fisher as lead singer...
  
   and Nemhauser
• 1979 Michael R. Garey and David S. Johnson
  David S. Johnson
  David Stifler Johnson is a computer scientist specializing in algorithms and optimization. He is currently the head of the Algorithms and Optimization Department of AT&T Labs Research. He was awarded the 2010 Knuth Prize....
  
  
• 1980 David M. Eddy
  David M. Eddy
  David M. Eddy , M.D., Ph.D., is the founder and medical director of Archimedes, a healthcare modeling company located in San Francisco, California. He is regarded as an expert on medical decision-making and the use of computer models to predict the effectiveness of treatment.-Education:David Eddy...
  
  
• 1981 David Hopkins
  David Hopkins
  David Hopkins is the name of:* David Hopkins , webcomic artist* David Hopkins , American comic book writer and essayist* David Hopkins , singer-songwriter...
  
   and William Massy
• 1982 Karl-Heinz Borgwardt
• 1983 Martin Shubik
  Martin Shubik
  Martin Shubik is an American economist, who is Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Institutional Economics at Yale University. He was educated at the University of Toronto and Princeton University...
  
  , Ellis Johnson
  Ellis Johnson
  Ellis Johnson may refer to:*Ellis Johnson , former American football defensive tackle for the Indianapolis Colts, Atlanta Falcons and Denver Broncos...
  
  , Manfred Padberg and Harlan Crowder
• 1984 Narendra Karmarkar
  Narendra Karmarkar
  Narendra K. Karmarkar is an Indian mathematician, renowned for developing Karmarkar's algorithm. He is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.- Biography :...
  
   and Robert Tarjan
  Robert Tarjan
  Robert Endre Tarjan is a renowned American computer scientist. He is the discoverer of several important graph algorithms, including Tarjan's off-line least common ancestors algorithm, and co-inventor of both splay trees and Fibonacci heaps. Tarjan is currently the James S...
  
  
• 1985 Michael Maltz
  Michael Maltz
  Michael D. Maltz is an American electrical engineer, criminologist and Emeritus Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago in criminal justice, and adjunct professor and researcher at Ohio State University.- Biography :...
  
  
• 1986 Alexander Schrijver and Peter Whittle
  Peter Whittle
  Peter Whittle is a mathematician and statistician, working in the fields of stochastic nets, optimal control, time series analysis, stochastic optimization and stochastic dynamics...
  
  
• 1988 Robin Roundy
• 1989 Jean Walrand, George L. Nemhauser and Laurence A. Wolsey
• 1990 Alvin E. Roth
  Alvin E. Roth
  Alvin E. "Al" Roth is an American economist currently serving as the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration at Harvard Business School...
  
   and Marilda Sotomayor
• 1991 Frank P. Kelly
• 1992 Masakazu Kojima, Nimrod Megiddo
  Nimrod Megiddo
  Nimrod Megiddo is a mathematician and computer scientist. He is research scientist at the IBM Almaden Research Center.His interests include optimization, algorithm design and analysis, game theory, and machine learning....
  
  , Shinji Mizuno, Toshihito Noma and Akiko Yoshise
• 1993 Thomas L. Magnanti
  Thomas L. Magnanti
  Thomas L. Magnanti is an American engineer and Institute Professor and former Dean of the School of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
  
  , James B. Orlin
  James B. Orlin
  James Berger Orlin is an American operations researcher, the Edward Pennell Brooks Professor in Management and Professor of Operations Research at the MIT Sloan School of Management....
  
   and Ravindra K. Ahuja
  Ravindra K. Ahuja
  Dr. Ravindra K. Ahuja is a researcher and academician. He has contributed to the theory and applications of network optimization, and his research papers are widely cited. Ahuja is a co-author of more than 100 research papers and book chapters in the areas of Industrial Engineering, Operations...
  
  
• 1994 Edward Kaplan, Richard Cottle, Jong-Shi Pang and Richard Stone
  Richard Stone
  Sir John Richard Nicholas Stone was an eminent British economist who in 1984 received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for developing an accounting model that could be used to track economic activities on a national and, later, an international scale...
  
  
• 1995 Robert J. Aumann
  Robert Aumann
  Robert John Aumann is an Israeli-American mathematician and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He is a professor at the Center for the Study of Rationality in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel...
  
  , Michael B. Maschler
  Michael Maschler
  Michael Bahir Maschler was an Israeli mathematician well known for his contributions to the field of game theory...
  
  , Martin L. Puterman, and Richard E. Stearns
• 1996 George Fishman
• 1997 R. Tyrrell Rockafellar
  R. Tyrrell Rockafellar
  * for the George Dantzig Prize in 1994 in Optima, Issue 44 page 5.- Books :* Rockafellar, R. Tyrrell. Conjugate duality and optimization. Lectures given at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., June, 1973. Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences Regional Conference Series in Applied...
  
   and Roger J-B Wets
• 2000 Olvi Mangasarian
• 2001 J. Michael Harrison
  J. Michael Harrison
  J. Michael Harrison is an American scientist, known for his contributions to the theory of mathematical finance, in particularstochastic networks and financial engineering. He has authorednear 90 journal articles and written two books in his area....
  
  
• 2003 Nicholas Vieille and Ward Whitt
  Ward Whitt
  Ward Whitt is an internationally renowned expert in operations research and management sciences. He is currently the Wai T. Chang Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Columbia University. His research focuses on queueing theory, performance analysis, stochastic models of...
  
  
• 2004 Alexander Schrijver
• 2005 Kalyan T. Talluri and Garrett J. van Ryzin
• 2006 Paul Glasserman
• 2007 David L. Applegate, Robert E. Bixby, Vašek Chvátal, and William J. Cook
• 2008 Warren P. Adams and Hanif D. Sherali, and Lawrence M. Wein
• 2009 Not awarded
• 2010 Not awarded