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A. Alan B. Pritsker | |
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 Alan Pritsker | |
| Born | February 5, 1933 |
| Died | August 24, 2000 (aged 67) |
| Alma mater | Ohio State University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Operations research |
| Institutions | Purdue University |
| Thesis | The Optimal Control of Discrete Stochastic Processes (1961) |
A. Alan B. Pritsker (February 5, 1933—August 24, 2000) was an American engineer, pioneer in the field of Operations research, and one of the founders of the field of computer simulation. Over the course of a fifty-five-year career, he made numerous contributions to the field of simulation and to the larger fields of industrial engineering and operations research.