Professor George Dantzig, Stanford Operations Research ...
Professor George Dantzig: Linear Programming Founder Turns 80 SIAM News, November 1994 In spite of impressive developments in computational optimization in the last 20 years, including the rapid advance of interior point methods, the simplex method, invented by George B. Dantzig in 1947, has stood the test of time quite remarkably: It is still the pre-eminent tool for almost all applications ...