Friday, June 14, 2013
Bob
E.
Bixby
received
an
honorary
Doctor
of
Mathematics
(DMath).
He
is
well
known
for
his
early
work
on
matroid
connectivity
and
representability,
and
his
later
work
on
linear
optimization.
His
CPLEX
software
for
linear
optimization
and
mixed
integer
programming
is
widely
used
around
the
world.
Bob
is
research
professor
of
Management
in
the
Jesse
H.
Jones
Graduate
School
of
Management
at
Rice
University,
and
a
Noah
Harding
professor
emeritus
of
Computational
and
Applied
Mathematics
at
Rice
University.
He
is
also
a
founder
and
the
president
of
Gurobi
Optimization.
