Jack Edmonds

Jack Edmonds
Edmonds with his NP rock outside his home in Ontario, Canada
Born	John Robert Edmonds (1934-04-05) April 5, 1934 (age 90) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Alma mater	University of Maryland George Washington University Duke University
Known for	NP Edmonds–Karp algorithm Edmonds–Gallai decomposition theorem Cobham's thesis Blossom algorithm Edmonds algorithm Polymatroid Matroid intersection Edmonds matrix
Awards	John von Neumann Theory Prize (1985)
Scientific career
Fields	Computer Science, Mathematics
Institutions	University of Waterloo National Institute of Standards and Technology
Doctoral students	Mustafa Akgül Gilberto Calvillo Vives Komei Fukuda William R. Pulleyblank Peyton Young

Jack R. Edmonds (born April 5, 1934) is an American-born and educated computer scientist and mathematician who lived and worked in Canada for much of his life. He has made fundamental contributions to the fields of combinatorial optimization, polyhedral combinatorics, discrete mathematics and the theory of computing. He was the recipient of the 1985 John von Neumann Theory Prize.