Fred W. Glover
Fred Glover is Chief Scientific Officer of, USA, in charge of algorithmic design and strategic planning for applications of combinatorial optimization in quantum computing. He also holds the title of Distinguished University Professor, Emeritus, at the University of Colorado, Boulder, associated with the and the . He is known for his innovations in the area of metaheuristics including the computer-based optimization methodology of Tabu search an adaptive memory programming algorithm for mathematical optimization, and the associated evolutionary Scatter Search and Path Relinking algorithms.
His past and present editorial positions include serving as first Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of the, Area Editor,, Area Editor,, Area Editor, Annals of Operations Research, Associate Editor,, Associate Editor,, Honorary Editor,, and Special Issue Editor, .
He has authored and coauthored over spanning the fields of network optimization artificial intelligence discrete optimization, simulation optimization, and quantum-inspired computing, and co-founded the companies Analysis, Research and Computation, Inc., Heuristec, Inc. and .
Education
Glover received his PhD in operations research in 1965 under Gerald L. Thompson and Herbert A. Simon from Carnegie Mellon University, and served as a Post-doctoral Research Fellow with at the University of California, Berkeley, in the headed by George B. Dantzig in 1967. He obtained a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Missouri in 1960.Honors and awards
Dr. Glover is an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and is the recipient of the John von Neumann Theory Prize, the highest honor of the His other awards and honorary fellowships include:- Fellow,
- Fellow,
- The INFORMS Journal on Computing Test of Time Award
- Honorary Doctorate, Universidad de Burgos, Spain
- Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Herbert A. Simon Award for Outstanding Contribution in Information Technology and Decision Making, by the
- in Worlds Best Scientists
- for contributions that have had a broad and enduring impact on the fields of Operations Research and Management Science
- Networks Journal Honor: creation of the given annually for best paper to appear in the
- Fellow, Institute of Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS)
- Outstanding Achievement Award of the
- Honorary Fellow, Alpha Iota Delta International Honor Society in
- Honorary Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- Federal Fellow, U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)
Honorary Appointments & Professorships
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- Honorary Director, Institute of Management Science & Industrial Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology
- Chaired Research Professor in Computer Science ], Laboratoire d'Etude et de Recherche en Informatique d'Angers
- Honorary Doctorate,
- Honorary Professor,, University of Colorado, Denver,
- Founding Research Director of the at the University of Mississippi, in Oxford, MS
- Distinguished Visiting Researcher,
- Distinguished Visiting Research Professor,, Switzerland,
- Research Scholar,
- Visiting in Engineering,, Austin,
- Distinguished University Research Lecturer,
- Head of Global Optimization, NASA Center for Space Construction, University of Colorado, Boulder