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Article Excerpt
CPMS, The Practice Section of INFORMS, strives to support OR/MS practitioners by publicizing OR/MS success stories and connecting professionals with similar interests. We are therefore pleased to present the results of the seventh competition for the Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice, established in memory of the late Dr. Daniel H. Wagner.
Dan Wagner earned his PhD in mathematics from Brown University in 1951. His dissertation, "On free products of groups," was published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society in 1957. He joined the US Navy's Operations Evaluation Group (OEG) and worked on operations research for naval warfare until 1956. After a one-year leave of absence for postdoctoral research at MIT, he joined Burroughs Research Center. There he directed a group of mathematicians who were performing analysis for the development of digital computers.
In 1957, Dan Wagner and John D. Kettelle formed the partnership of Kettelle and Wagner. In 1963, they dissolved the partnership and Dan formed a new company, Daniel H. Wagner Associates, Inc. This company did leading edge work in the mathematics of naval tactics, especially antisubmarine warfare, detection theory, and search planning.
During his years as president and principal owner of Wagner Associates, Dan brought many high-quality mathematicians into the operations research community. This led to significant advances in the firm's fields...
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