John D. C. Little
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John Dutton Conant Little passed away 7 Sep 2024, at age 96
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John D. C. Little Obituary
John Dutton Conant Little passed away peacefully in the early morning of September 27, 2024, at age 96, a day after what would have been his wife, Elizabeth’s, 98th birthday. John Little was an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Professor of Management Science in the MIT Sloan School. He retired in 2017 after a distinguished career spanning seven decades, making fundamental contributions to queueing theory, traffic flow management, branch and bound optimization, decision support systems, operations research, and marketing science – fields he helped create. Along the way, he touched the lives of hundreds of faculty and staff, and thousands of graduate and undergraduate students from all over the world.
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