William W. Cooper

William W. Cooper was Professor at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas. He died in June 2012 at the age of 97. Professor Cooper worked at the White House, Carnegie Mellon University, and Harvard Business School until he came to the University of Texas in 1980 at the age of 66. In his career, Cooper was known as one of the inventors of management science and a co-creator of data envelopment analysis.