Nimrod Megiddo awarded the John von Neumann Theory Prize at INFORMS 2014

Nimrod Megiddo was announced as the winner of the 2014 von Neumann Theory Prize at the INFORMS meeting yesterday (although as of this writing the web page hasn't been updated).

He is a deserving member of a distinguished club:

Past Awardees

2013 Winner(s)

Michel L Balinski, C.N.R.S. and Ecole Polytechnique

2012 Winner(s)

George L. Nemhauser, Georgia Institute of TechnologyLaurence A. Wolsey, Université Catholique de Louvain

2011 Winner(s)

Gerard P. Cornuejols, Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business

2010 Winner(s)

Peter Glynn, Stanford UniversitySøren Asmussen, Aarhus University, Denmark

2009 Winner(s)

Yurii Nesterov, CORE/UCLYinyu Ye, Stanford University, Department of Management Science & Engineering

2008 Winner(s)

Frank P. Kelly, Centre for Mathematical Science, University of Cambridge

2007 Winner(s)

Arthur F. Veinott, Jr., Stanford University

2006 Winner(s)

Martin Grötschel, ZIB
Konrad-Zuse-ZentrumLászló Lovász, Eotvos University, Institute of MathematicsAlexander Schrijver, CWI, National Research Institute for Mathematics & Computer Science

2005 Winner(s)

Robert J. Aumann, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Center for Rationality

2004 Winner(s)

J. Michael Harrison, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business

2003 Winner(s)

Arkadi Nemirovski, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of ISyEMichael J. Todd, Cornell University
School of Operations Research and Information

2002 Winner(s)

Cyrus Derman, Professor Operations Research, Columbia UniversityDonald L. Iglehart, Stanford University

2001 Winner(s)

Ward Whitt, Columbia University, Industrial Engineering & Operations Research Dept.

2000 Winner(s)

Ellis L. Johnson, School of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of TechnologyManfred W. Padberg, New York University, Stern School of Business

1999 Winner(s)

R. Tyrrell Rockafellar, University of Washington, Dept. of Mathematics

1998 Winner(s)

Fred W. Glover, OptTek Systems, Inc.

1997 Winner(s)

Peter Whittle

1996 Winner(s)

Peter C. Fishburn

1995 Winner(s)

Egon Balas, Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business

1994 Winner(s)

Lajos Takacs

1993 Winner(s)

Robert Herman, University of Texas-Austin

1992 Winner(s)

Alan J. Hoffman, IBMPhilip S. Wolfe, IBM

1991 Winner(s)

Richard E. Barlow, University of California-BerkeleyFrank Proschan

1990 Winner(s)

Richard M. Karp, University of California - Berkeley, Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

1989 Winner(s)

Harry M. Markowitz , Baruch College

1988 Winner(s)

Herbert A. Simon

1987 Winner(s)

Samuel Karlin , Stanford University
Dept of Mathematics

1986 Winner(s)

Kenneth J. Arrow , Stanford University, Dept. of Economics

1985 Winner(s)

Jack Edmonds, University of Waterloo, Dept. of Combinatorics & Optimization

1984 Winner(s)

Ralph E. Gomory , Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

1983 Winner(s)

Herbert E. Scarf, Yale University

1982 Winner(s)

Abraham CharnesWilliam W. Cooper, University of Texas - Austin, MSIS DepartmentRichard J. Duffin

1981 Winner(s)

Lloyd S. Shapley , University of California - Los Angeles, Dept. of Economics

1980 Winner(s)

David GaleHarold W. Kuhn, Princeton UniversityAlbert W. Tucker

1979 Winner(s)

David Blackwell , University of California - Berkeley

1978 Winner(s)

John F. Nash, Princeton University, Mathematics Dept.Carlton E. Lemke

1977 Winner(s)

Felix Pollaczek

1976 Winner(s)

Richard Bellman

1975 Winner(s)

George B. Dantzig, Stanford University