John O. Sawyer, Jr

John Forbes Nash Jr . ( 1928 – 2015 )

John Forbes Nash Jr. was born in Bluefield, West Virginia, on June 13, 1928 and was named after his father, who was an electrical engineer. His mother, Margaret Virginia (née Martin), was a school teacher before her marriage, teaching English and sometimes Latin. After attending the standard schools in Bluefield, Nash entered the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh (now Carnegie Mell...

Mathematicians as Great Economists : John Forbes Nash , Jr . Matthew

ly conceived, a two-person bargaining problem consists of a set of feasible contracts, with associated payoffs to each bargainer. As Edgeworth, von Neumann and Morgenstern, and others had observed, it is reasonable to suppose that the chosen contract will satisfy: • Efficiency: No other feasible contract offers both bargainers a higher payoff. However, this requirement typically leaves a large ...

John H. Gibbon, Jr., Lecture: leadership in medicine.

John H. Gibbon, Jr., M.D.: surgical innovator, pioneer, and inspiration.

James T. Sawyer

In the industrial engineering community, it’s a well-known adage that focusing on process can help achieve better results. In this second of a series of papers, we’ll focus on the process of simulation testing and outline how improving your testing process can lead to better results for your projects. We’ll consider model building as a software development exercise, and discuss how best practic...