Robert J. Weber
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Robert J. Weber (born 1947) is the Frederic E. Nemmers Distinguished Professor of Decision Sciences at the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University. He received his AB in Mathematics in 1969 from Princeton University, both his MS in 1972 and Ph.D. in 1974 in Operations Research from Cornell University. He was a faculty member of the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics at Yale University, and taught at the Yale School of Management, prior to joining the Kellogg faculty in 1979. He was one of the original researchers of and created the term Approval voting, a multi-candidate binary rating system of social choice.
