Mensaje de Sebastián Ceria
Egon se mantuvo activo en la investigación y la docencia hasta sus últimos días. Hace tres semanas dio su última clase de programación entera en CMU, a los 96 años! A fines del 2018 publico su primer(!) libro de texto sobre Programación Disyuntiva: https://www.amazon.com/Disjunctive-Programming-Egon-Balas/dp/3030001474/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=disjunctive+programming&qid=1553520494&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull , y en el año 2000 su obra autobiográfica: https://www.amazon.com/Will-Freedom-Perilous-Journey-Communism/dp/0815609302/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=egon+balas&qid=1553520625&s=gateway&sr=8-1. Vale la pena leer ambos, el primero para comprender su área de investigación más prolífica (empezó a trabajar en programación disyuntiva en los años 70), y el segundo para admirar sus cualidades humanas.
Lo vamos a extrañar mucho, se fue un grande.
Sebastian
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Uma triste notícia. Morreu Egon Balas, um pesquisador expoente e pioneiro na área de Otimização Combinatória (programação inteira e combinatória poliédrica) e professor da top3 CMU - Carnegie Mellon University.
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From: Nelson Maculan <nelson.maculan@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 11:03 AM
Subject: Remembering Egon Balas
I met Prof. Egon Balas in 1976, he was touring in Brazil and phoned me. That same year, invited by me, he taught an Integer Programming course at the Systems Engineering and Computer Science Program-COPPE-Institute of Mathematics-Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
Thanks to him I could have an international career. At that time there was neither internet nor fax! Egon opened the doors for me and colleagues working in Brazil. In last December he sent me his book "Disjunctive Programming" with a beautiful dedication.
The whole area of Combinatorial Optimization will miss him a lot. He was a pioneer.
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Rosiane de Freitas, CS Research Professor
Optimization, Algorithms,
and Computational Complexity research group
Institute of Computing - Federal University of
Amazonas (IComp/UFAM)
Manaus - Amazonas, Brazil
+55 92 9 8242-4088
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