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Thomas Caywood

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Institutions
  
Harvard University

Died
  
10 December 2008

Academic advisor
  
Garrett Birkhoff

Academic advisors
  
Garrett Birkhoff

Institution
  
Harvard University

Born
  
May 9, 1919 (
1919-05-09
)

Alma maters
  
Cornell College, Northwestern University, Harvard University

Fields
  
Mathematics, Computer Science

Thomas E. Caywood (9 May, 1919 – 19 December, 2008) was an American computer scientist and cofoundeder of the Operations Research Society of America.

Caywood first attended Cornell College and then attended Northwestern University. He went on to join the Harvard Systems Research Laboratory. Having gained a PhD on Axially Symmetric Harmonic Functions at Harvard in 1947, Caywood moved to the Institute for Air Weapons Research at the University of Chicago.

In 1965 his name appeared on a list of academics involved with Project Camelot.

References

Thomas Caywood Wikipedia