Robert J. Weber

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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Biography

Education

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.

Career

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]

References

  1. ^ a b Faculty directory, Kellogg School, retrieved 2010-01-30.
  2. ^ Brams, Steven J.; Fishburn, Peter C. (2007), Approval Voting, Springer-Verlag, p. xv, ISBN 9780387498959 .