William A. Wallace (organizational theorist)

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William A. Wallace
Bornca. 1935 (age 8586)
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma mater Illinois Institute of Technology 1958, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1965
Known for Dynamic network analysis
Scientific career
Fields Social network analysis
Computational sociology
Institutions Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

William A. Wallace (often referred to as William "Al" Wallace) [1] is an American systems and infrastructure engineering expert. He is professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the department of decision sciences and engineering systems, and holds joint appointments in cognitive sciences and civil and environmental engineering. He is research director of Rensselaer's Center for Infrastructure and Transportation Studies. [2]

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Education and early life

Wallace gained his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1958, and his M.S. (1961) and Ph.D. (1965) in management science from Rensselaer, His doctoral thesis was entitled Producer Learning: An Adaptive Control Process. [3] He also served in the U.S. Navy. [4]

Research

Wallace's research interests center around decision support systems, the process of modeling and emergency management. [3] His work has focussed on transportation, infrastructure and in particular computer-based simulation and modeling, notably of emergency transport and other major incident management. [1]

Wallace was the founding co-editor, and co-editor-in-chief of the journal Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory . [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Inside Rensselaer, August 28, 2009: Wallace Named Yamada Corporation Professor at Rensselaer". Inside Rensselaer. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 3 (7). 28 August 2009. Retrieved 10 April 2010.
  2. "William A. Wallace". University of North Carolina . Retrieved 10 April 2011.
  3. 1 2 "William A. Wallace: CV" . Retrieved 10 April 2011.
  4. "NSF – News – Speaker Bios for Media Briefing, Beyond September 11th: An Account of Post-Disaster Research". NSF . Retrieved 10 April 2011.
  5. "Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory (Editorial Board)" . Retrieved 9 April 2011.