Robert J. Weber (born 1947) is the Frederic E. Nemmers Distinguished Professor of Decision Sciences at the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University.[1]
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He received his bachelor's degree in Mathematics in 1969 from Princeton University, and both his MS in 1972 and Ph.D. in 1974 in Operations Research from Cornell University.
He then became a faculty member at Yale University, where he belonged to the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics and the Yale School of Management; in 1979 he moved to Northwestern.[1] He was one of the original researchers of and coined the name for approval voting, a multi-candidate binary rating system of social choice.[2]