William Cook

William Cook is a professor of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), and a Fellow of INFORMS. Together with David Applegate, Robert Bixby, and Vasek Chvatal, Cook created the Concorde computer code for the traveling salesman problem.