The John von Neumann Theory Prize of the

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(INFORMS) is awarded annually to an individual (or sometimes a group) who has made fundamental and sustained contributions to theory in

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and the management sciences. The Prize named after mathematician

John von Neumann John von Neumann (; hu, Neumann János Lajos, ; December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, engineer and polymath. He was regarded as having perhaps the widest cove ...

is awarded for a body of work, rather than a single piece. The Prize was intended to reflect contributions that have stood the test of time. The criteria include significance, innovation, depth, and scientific excellence. The award is $5,000, a medallion and a citation. The Prize has been awarded since 1975. The first recipient was George B. Dantzig for his work on

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List of recipients

* 2022 Vijay Vazirani * 2021

Alexander Shapiro Alexander Shapiro is an A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Professor in H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. He was editor-in-chief of the journal ''Mathematical Programming, Series A'' and was an area edit ...

* 2020

Adrian Lewis Adrian Lewis (born 21 January 1985) is an English professional darts player currently playing in the PDC. He is a two-time PDC World Darts Champion, winning in 2011 and 2012. He is nicknamed Jackpot, as he won a jackpot gambling in Las Vegas ...

* 2019

Dimitris Bertsimas Dimitris Bertsimas is an American applied mathematician, and a professor in the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 2005, Bertsimas was elected a member of the National Ac ...

and Jong-Shi Pang * 2018

Dimitri Bertsekas Dimitri Panteli Bertsekas (born 1942, Athens, el, Δημήτρης Παντελής Μπερτσεκάς) is an applied mathematician, electrical engineer, and computer scientist, a McAfee Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineeri ...

and

John Tsitsiklis John N. Tsitsiklis ( el, Γιάννης Ν. Τσιτσικλής; born 1958) is a Clarence J. Lebel Professor of Electrical Engineering with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Te ...

** ''for contributions to Parallel and Distributed Computation as well as Neurodynamic Programming.'' * 2017 Donald Goldfarb and

Jorge Nocedal Jorge Nocedal (born 1952) is a applied mathematician, computer scientist and the Walter P. Murphy professor at Northwestern University who in 2017 received the John Von Neumann Theory Prize. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engin ...

** ''for seminal contributions to the theory and applications of nonlinear optimization over the past several decades.'' * 2016 Martin I. Reiman and Ruth J. Williams ** ''for seminal research contributions over the past several decades, to the theory and applications of “stochastic networks/systems” and their “heavy traffic approximations.”'' * 2015 Vašek Chvátal and

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** ''for seminal and profound contributions to the theoretical foundations of optimization.'' * 2014 Nimrod Megiddo ** ''for fundamental contributions across a broad range of areas of operations research and management science, most notably in linear programming, combinatorial optimization, and algorithmic game theory.'' * 2013

Michel Balinski Michel Louis Balinski (born Michał Ludwik Baliński; October 6, 1933 – February 4, 2019) was an applied mathematician, economist, operations research analyst and political scientist. As a Polish-American, educated in the United States, he l ...

* 2012

George Nemhauser George Lann Nemhauser (born 1937). is an American operations researcher, the A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Institute Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the former president of the Operat ...

and

Laurence Wolsey Laurence Alexander Wolsey is an English mathematician working in the field of integer programming. He is a former president and research director of the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) at Université catholique de Louvain in ...

* 2011

Gérard Cornuéjols Gérard Pierre Cornuéjols (born November 16, 1950) is the IBM University Professor of Operations Research in the Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business. His research interests include facility location, integer programming, balance ...

, IBM University Professor of Operations Research at Carnegie Mellon University's

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** ''for his fundamental and broad contributions to discrete optimization including his deep research on balanced and ideal matrices, perfect graphs and cutting planes for mixed-integer optimization.'' * 2010 Søren Asmussen and Peter W. Glynn * 2009

Yurii Nesterov Yurii Nesterov is a Russian mathematician, an internationally recognized expert in convex optimization, especially in the development of efficient algorithms and numerical optimization analysis. He is currently a professor at the University of L ...

and Yinyu Ye * 2008

Frank Kelly Francis Kelly (28 December 1938 – 28 February 2016) was an Irish actor, singer and writer, whose career covered television, radio, theatre, music, screenwriting and film. He is best remembered for playing Father Jack Hackett in the Channel 4 ...

* 2007

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** ''for his profound contributions to three major areas of operations research and management science: inventory theory, dynamic programming and lattice programming.'' * 2006 Martin Grötschel,

László Lovász László Lovász (; born March 9, 1948) is a Hungarian mathematician and professor emeritus at Eötvös Loránd University, best known for his work in combinatorics, for which he was awarded the 2021 Abel Prize jointly with Avi Wigderson. He wa ...

and

Alexander Schrijver Alexander (Lex) Schrijver (born 4 May 1948 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch mathematician and computer scientist, a professor of discrete mathematics and optimization at the University of Amsterdam and a fellow at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Ams ...

** ''for their fundamental path-breaking work in combinatorial optimization.'' * 2005 Robert J. Aumann ** ''in recognition of his fundamental contributions to game theory and related areas'' * 2004 J. Michael Harrison ** ''for his profound contributions to two major areas of

and

management science Management science (or managerial science) is a wide and interdisciplinary study of solving complex problems and making strategic decisions as it pertains to institutions, corporations, governments and other types of organizational entities. It is ...

: stochastic networks and

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.'' * 2003

Arkadi Nemirovski Arkadi Nemirovski (born March 14, 1947) is a professor at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has been a leader in continuous optimization and is best known for his wor ...

and Michael J. Todd ** ''for their seminal and profound contributions in continuous optimization''. * 2002 Donald L. Iglehart and Cyrus Derman ** ''for their fundamental contributions to performance analysis and optimization of stochastic systems'' * 2001 Ward Whitt ** ''for his contributions to

queueing theory Queueing theory is the mathematical study of waiting lines, or queues. A queueing model is constructed so that queue lengths and waiting time can be predicted. Queueing theory is generally considered a branch of operations research because the ...

, applied probability and

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'' * 2000 Ellis L. Johnson and Manfred W. Padberg * 1999 R. Tyrrell Rockafellar * 1998

Fred W. Glover Fred W. Glover (born March 8, 1937 in Kansas City, Missouri) is known for his contributions to the area of metaheuristics (a name he coined) and for launching the computer-based optimization methodology of Tabu search and the associated evolut ...

* 1997 Peter Whittle * 1996

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* 1995 Egon Balas * 1994

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* 1993 Robert Herman * 1992 Alan J. Hoffman and Philip Wolfe * 1991 Richard E. Barlow and

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* 1990

Richard Karp Richard Manning Karp (born January 3, 1935) is an American computer scientist and computational theorist at the University of California, Berkeley. He is most notable for his research in the theory of algorithms, for which he received a Turing A ...

* 1989 Harry M. Markowitz * 1988 Herbert A. Simon * 1987

Samuel Karlin Samuel Karlin (June 8, 1924 – December 18, 2007) was an American mathematician at Stanford University in the late 20th century. Biography Karlin was born in Janów, Poland and immigrated to Chicago as a child. Raised in an Orthodox Jewish hou ...

* 1986

Kenneth J. Arrow Kenneth Joseph Arrow (23 August 1921 – 21 February 2017) was an American economist, mathematician, writer, and political theorist. He was the joint winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with John Hicks in 1972. In economics ...

* 1985

Jack Edmonds Jack R. Edmonds (born April 5, 1934) is an American-born and educated computer scientist and mathematician who lived and worked in Canada for much of his life. He has made fundamental contributions to the fields of combinatorial optimization, pol ...

* 1984 Ralph Gomory * 1983

Herbert Scarf Herbert Eli "Herb" Scarf (July 25, 1930 – November 15, 2015) was an American mathematical economist and Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University. Education and career Scarf was born in Philadelphia, the son of Jewish emigrants from U ...

* 1982 Abraham Charnes, William W. Cooper, and Richard J. Duffin * 1981 Lloyd Shapley * 1980

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, Harold W. Kuhn, and Albert W. Tucker * 1979

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* 1978

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and Carlton E. Lemke * 1977

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* 1976

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* 1975 George B. Dantzig ''for his work on

'' There is also an

IEEE John von Neumann Medal The IEEE John von Neumann Medal was established by the IEEE Board of Directors in 1990 and may be presented annually "for outstanding achievements in computer-related science and technology." The achievements may be theoretical, technological, or ...

awarded by the

IEEE The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operati ...

annually "for outstanding achievements in computer-related science and technology".

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* {{John von Neumann Theory Prize recipients Awards established in 1975 * Systems sciences awards Operations research awards

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