Ronald A. Howard

[4] Interests included improving the quality of decisions, life-and-death decision-making, and the creation of a coercion-free society.[5] Howard also taught a graduate-level course, "Voluntary Social Systems," which investigated the means of constructing and operating a coercion-free society.In 1986 he received the Operations Research Society of America's Frank P. Ramsey Medal "for distinguished contributions in decision analysis".In 1999 INFORMS invited him to give the Omega Rho Distinguished Plenary Lecture at the Cincinnati National Meeting.Howard was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1999 for contributions to the foundations of decision analysis and its application.
Management ScienceStanford Universitydecision analysisethicsOperations Research Society of AmericaInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciencesoperations researchOmega RhoNational Academy of EngineeringFellowsHoward RaiffaGeorge E. KimballMarkov decision problemsInfluence diagrammicromortJohn Wiley & SonsSRI InternationalInforms.org