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Bruce Golden received his
undergraduate degree in
mathematics from the
University of Pennsylvania and his masters and doctoral degrees from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined the
faculty of the University of Maryland Business School in 1976 and
served as a Department Chairman from 1980 to 1996. Currently,
he is the France-Merrick Chair in Management Science in the
Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. His
research interests include heuristic search, combinatorial
optimization, networks, and applied operations research. Bruce
has received numerous awards, including the Thomas L. Saaty Prize
(1994 and 2005), the University of Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher
Award (2000), the INFORMS Award for the Teaching of OR/MS Practice
(2003), and the INFORMS Computing Society Prize (2005). He was
named an
INFORMS
Fellow in 2004. Since 1999, Bruce has served
as Editor-in-Chief of
NETWORKS. Before that, he was
Editor-in-Chief of the
INFORMS
Journal on Computing.
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In
addition, he has received numerous contracts and grants, has
consulted for a wide variety of organizations, and has served on the
Board of Directors of several high-tech companies based in Maryland.
In 1980, he founded a management consulting company with several
colleagues. The focus was on business logistics. Clients
included IBM, UPS, the U.S. Postal Service, the U.S. Air Force, the
U.S. Army, Federal Express, Toyota, DuPont, and many others.
In the late 1980’s, Bruce co-founded a second company, specializing in
the design and sales of vehicle routing software. He and his partners successfully grew these companies and sold
them in late 1998. The surviving company is
RouteSmart
Technologies, Inc.
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