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Work Experience

Teaching

1989 -- 2007

Department of Mathematics & Statistics
The University of Melbourne
Parkville, VIC, Australia

Linear Programming and Optimization
Dynamic Programming
Interactive Modelling in Operations Research
Numerical Methods
Operations Research
Decision Making

1986

Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering
The University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

Interactive Computing Modelling and Analysis.

1984-5

Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering
The University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona.

Decision Making Under Uncertainty
Dynamic Programming
Interactive Computing Modelling and Analysis.

1982

Department of Applied Mathematics
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, RSA.

Dynamic Programming.

Engineering

1968-72

Planning Engineer
Ministry of Agriculture
Tel-Aviv, Israel.

Design and operations of hydrometric networks

Research

2007 --

Retired

Dynamic Programming
Decision-Making Under Severe Uncertainty

1989 -- 2007

Department of Mathematics
The University of Melbourne
Parkville, VIC, Australia

Dynamic Programming
Composite Concave Programming
Fractional Programming
Interactive Computing and Modelling
APL

1988-9

Chief Specialist
Operations Research and Decision Support Programme
Centre for Advanced Computing and Decision Support
CSIR, Pretoria, RSA.

Dynamic Programming
Composite Concave programming
Fractional Programming
Water Resources Systems
Interactive Modelling in Operations Research
APL.

1979-89

Senior Chief Research Officer
Operations Research and Statistics Division
NRIMS, CSIR, Pretoria, RSA.

Dynamic Programming
Composite Concave Programming
Fractional Programming
Interactive Computing and Modelling in Operations Research
APL.

1977-9

Visiting Scientist
IBM Thomas J Watson Research Center
Yorktown Heights, NY, USA.

Dynamic Programming
Water Resources Systems
APL.

1976-7

Research Associate
School of Engineering
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ., USA.

Dynamic Programming
Water Resources Systems.

Consulting

1977-2007

 USA, South Africa, Australia Water resources planning, foresstry, defence, interactive computing and modelling, optimization.

Interactive Modules Development

1977-Present

 Mostly interactive educational modulesSee tutOR project, for example.

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