SDPS Distinguished Members--Fellow & Honorary

Members

Dr. George Kozmetsky, SDPS Fellow & Honorary Member

Dr. George Kozmetsky was the Executive Associate for Economic Affairs, The University of Texas System. Dr. Kozmetsky served from 1966-1982 as Dean of the College of Business Administration and the Graduate School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. He is the co-founder and was a Director, and former Executive Vice President of Teledyne, Inc. He has assisted in developing over 100 technology based companies as well as serving on numerous boards including Gulf Oil, La Quinta, Heizer Inc., and DELL Corporation. Dr. Kozmetsky is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS). His three most recent books are Creating the Technopolis [co-editor] (Ballinger, 1988), Pacific Cooperation and Development [co-editor] (Praeger Publishers, 1988) and Modern American Capitalism [co-author] (Quorum Books, 1990). Dr. Kozmetsky received the 1987-88 Dow Jones Award from the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business for his outstanding contributions to management education; the 1988 Thomas Jefferson Award from the Technology Transfer Society for his work in advancing technology transfer; and was inducted into the Texas Business Hall of Fame for his business contributions to the State of Texas. In 1989, he received the University of Washington Alumnus Summa Dignatus Award. He was Austin’s 1992 Entrepreneur of the Year Supporter of Entrepreneurship. Dr. Kozmetsky is one of nine recipients of the 1993 National Medal of Technology. He is the first recipient of the Entrepreneurial Leadership Award from the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge, Inc. A native of Seattle, WA, Dr. Kozmetsky received the Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Washington in 1938, the Master of Business Administration degree in 1947 and the Doctor of Commercial Science degree in 1957 from Harvard University.

In 1995, the Society for Design and Process Science established the George Kozmetsky Distinguished Achievement Award to be awarded annually during the SDPS IDPT Conference.

Dr. K. T. Li, SDPS Fellow & Honorary Member

Dr. K. T. Li : As the ministers of Economy and Finance of the Republic of China(ROC), Dr. Li’s farsighted designs of economic infrastructure of ROC not only let to her economic miracle over the last forty years, but has also become a symbol of the hope for developing nations. Dr. Li’s design process and blueprints has not only influenced two generations of economic system designers, but has also become the case study for higher learning in major business schools around the world.

In 1997, the Society for Design and Process Science established the K. T. Li Award for Outstanding Design of Economical/Social systems to be given away annually during the SDPS IDPT Conference. This award acknowledges outstanding achievements in design excellence of economic/social systems.

Dr. Yukio Mizuno, SDPS Fellow & Honorary Member

Dr. Yukio Mizuno specializes in software engineering and software development management. He has been honored with the Blue Ribbon Medal from the Emperor of Japan for his great contribution to Japan’s computer industry through the development and promotion of basic software technology. Mr. Mizuno has published several books on computer software and has also been honored by the C.V. Ramamoorthy Distinguished Scholar Award and received an official commendation from the Operations Research Association of Japan and the Science and Technology Agency of Japan. He has served at the NEC-TOSHIBA Information Systems, Inc. since 1978 and has been actively associated with the Operations Research Society of Japan, Japan Association for the Promotion of Educational Technology and the Information Processing Society of Japan. He was Counselor & Board Member, NEC Infrontia Corp.

Dr. C.A.P. Petri, SDPS Fellow & Honorary Member

Dr. Carl Adam P. Petri with his PhD thesis established a completely new research area, widely known under the name Petri nets. Petri nets and its concepts have been extended and developed since then and both the theory and the applications. Petri nets have been used to model,visualize and analyze process and design abstractions in a wide range of technical and organizational disciplines. Applications can be found in automation technology, business administration, chemistry, computer science, design and management of manufacturing systems, process engineering and many more. The Petri Net is a formal method of modeling and describing such complex systems.

In 1997, the Society for Design and Process Science established the Carl A. Petri Distinguished Technical Achievement Award to be given away annually during the SDPS IDPT Conference.

Dr. C. V. Ramamoorthy, SDPS Fellow & Honorary Member

Dr. C. V. Ramamoorthy's distinguished career tracks back to the 1960s. In 1961, while working as a scientist for Honeywell, Ramamoorthy developed the entire microcode to handle instruction sequencing and control for the H290, Honeywell’s first transistorized system. The H290 was a general-purpose, stored-program digital computer designed for process monitoring and control. In the late 1960s, Ramamoorthy joined the University of Texas, Austin, as a professor of electrical engineering and computer science, later becoming chair of the computer science department. At UC Berkeley, where he joined the faculty in 1972, Ramamoorthy is an emeritus professor of Electrical Engineering and computer science. Most recently, his research investigations have focused on service industries-functions, features, and control-and the relationships between software and service engineering. IEEE Society has honored Ramamoorthy’s achievements with the Taylor L. Booth Education Award in 1989, the Richard E. Merwin Distinguished Service Award in 1993, Golden Core recognition in 1966, and Tsutomu Kanai Award in 2000. He also received the IEEE Centennial Medal and the IEEE Third Millennium Medal. He has been an IEEE Fellow since 1978 and is a Fellow of the Society for Design and Process Science, from which he received the R.T. Yeh Distinguished Achievement Award in 1997. A longtime Computer Society volunteer, Ramamoorthy was founding editor in chief of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering and served as editor in chief of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. He has published more than 150 papers, coedited three books, and holds patents in computer architecture, software engineering, computer testing and diagnosis and databases.He holds two undergraduate degrees in Physics from India. He obtained two graduate degrees in Mechanical Engineering from University of California at Berkeley, and two graduate degrees in Applied mathematics and Computer Sciences from Harvard.

In 1995, the Society for Design and Process Science established the C. V. Ramamoorthy Distinguished Scholar Award to be awarded annually during the SDPS IDPT Conference to individuals who have demonstrated significant academic achievement through research in the field of design and process science.

Dr. Herbert Simon, SDPS Fellow & Honorary Member

Professor Herbert A. Simon’s research has ranged from computer science to psychology, administration, and economics. The thread of continuity through all his work has been his interest in human decision-making and problemsolving processes, and he has made use of the computer as a tool for simulating human thinking. Born in 1916 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Simon was educated at the University of Chicago. Since 1949, he has been on the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University, where he is the Richard King Mellon University Professor of Computer Science and Psychology. Simon was not only a polymath crossing the lines between multiple disciplines, but a truly original thinker who foresaw many of today's most important scientific issues. He was a founding father in the domains of Artificial Intelligence, human problem-solving, information economy, complex systems and computer simulation of scientific discovery. He coined the terms bounded rationality and satisficing, and was the first to analyse the architecture of complexity and to propose a preferential attachment mechanism to explain power law distributions. In 1978, he received the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, and in 1986 the National Medal of Science. Simon’s writings include “Administrative Behavior, Human Problem Solving (jointly with Alen Newell), and Models of my Life (autobiography).

In 1996, The Society for Design and Process Science has established the Herbert A. Simon Gold Medal Award to recognize distinguished achievement in applying scientific principles to problems and processes for the benefit of mankind.