Stuart Dreyfus

Who is Stuart Dreyfus?

A native of Terre Haute, Indiana, Stuart E. Dreyfus is Professor Emeritus at University of California, Berkeley in the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department. While at the Rand Corporation he was a programmer of the JOHNNIAC computer. While at Rand he was coauthor, with Richard Bellman, of Applied Dynamic Programming. Following that work, he was encouraged to pursue a Ph.D. which he completed in applied mathematics at Harvard University in 1964, on the calculus of variations. He coauthored Mind Over Machine with his brother Hubert Dreyfus in 1986.