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John Dutton Conant Little (February 1, 1928)^[1] is an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.^[2]

Born in Boston, he earned a S.B. in physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1948) and worked at General Electric (1948–50). His Ph.D. on Use of Storage Water in a Hydroelectric System used dynamic programming, and advised by Philip M. Morse, was the first ever awarded in operations research (1955).^[3] Next, he taught at Case Western Reserve (1957–62) before joining the faculty at MIT (1962) where he since has worked. He was visiting professor at INSEAD (1988)

His earlier research in Operations Research involved traffic signal control, and gave him fame as he formed the Little's law in 1961. It states: "The average number of customers in a system (over some interval) is equal to their average arrival rate, multiplied by their average time in the system." A corollary has been added: "The average time in the system is equal to the average time in queue plus the average time it takes to receive service." Little is considered to be a founder of marketing science,^[4] having conducted fundamental research in models of individual choice behavior, adaptive control of promotional spending, and marketing mix models for consumer packaged goods. He has also started companies such as Management Decisions Systems and Kana Software. The John D. C. Little Award is awarded annually by INFORMS.^[5] He is the father of John N. Little^[6].

Publications [link]

The Use of Storage Water in a Hydroelectric System, Journal of the Operations Research Society of America, Vol. 3, No. 2 (May, 1955), pp. 187–197
A Proof for the Queueing Formula: L=λW Operations Research: A Journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, 9:383-387 (1961).
Models and Managers: The Concept of a Decision Calculus, in Management Science: A Journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, 16(8):466-4855, 1970
Decision Support Systems for Marketing Managers (1984)
The Marketing Information Revolution (Harvard Business School Press, 1994). With Robert C. Blattberg and Rashi Glazer

Awards [link]

National Academy of Engineering electee (1989)^[7]
Parlin and Converse Awards of the American Marketing Association
Honorary degrees from University of Liège and University of Mons-Hainaut
Kimball Medal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
Fellow of INFORMS and the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Buck Weaver Award from MIT Sloan School of Management 2003.^[8]

References [link]

^ Operations Research/Management Science, Marketing, and the Internet, talk (May 15, 1997)
^ Little's bio at MIT Sloan
^ entry at Mathematics Genealogy Project
^ John Little, The greatest of MIT's great faculty from spectrum.mit.edu (summer 2006)
^ John D. C. Little Award and biography from INFORMS
^ PROFILES IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH - DSpace@MIT
^ biography from nae.edu
^ John D.C. Little honored with Buck Weaver Award for outstanding contributions to marketing

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John Little

John Little may refer to:

People

John Little (academic), academic (born 1928), professor and chair of management science at the MIT Sloan School of Management

John H. Little, superintendent of Wentworth Military Academy

John N. Little, president and co-founder of The MathWorks

John R. Little (born 1955), dark fiction writer

John Little (writer), Bruce Lee scholar, bodybuilding/conditioning author

Politics

John Little (congressman) (1837–1900), U.S. Representative from Ohio

John Sebastian Little (1851–1916), U.S. Representative from Arkansas

John William Little, Canadian politician

Sports

John Little (basketball), American basketball player currently with BG Göttingen

John Little (American football) (1947–1997), American football player

John Little (footballer) (born 1930), Scottish footballer

Commercial

John Little (department store), a retail chain in Singapore

John Little (painter)

John Little (born 1928) is a Canadian artist. He primarily paints urban images of his home city of Montreal in oils, in the Fauvist style.

After studying at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and with the Art Students League of New York (where he met Ray Bailley and helped to illustrate the Bruce Gentry comic strip), Little joined his family's architectural practice in 1949, working as a draftsman. After his marriage in 1953 he made painting his primary profession, joining the Royal Canadian Academy in 1961 and becoming a full member in 1973.

Little's work is held in collections at the National Museum of Canada, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery at Concordia University, and the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art.

References

John Little (footballer)

Robert John Little (born 7 July 1930 in Calgary, Canada), known as John Little or Johnny Little, is a retired Scottish football defender who played for Queen's Park, Rangers, Morton and the Scotland national team.

Little was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada but grew up in Scotland in Millport, Isle of Cumbrae. He started his career with Queen's Park, making 55 league appearances. He joined Rangers in 1951, and he made a total of 275 appearances, scoring once. His only ever goal for the club came in a 1–1 draw with Hamilton Academical in March 1954. During his time at Ibrox he won four League championships and two Scottish Cups. He left Rangers at the end of the 1961-62 season, moving to Morton, where he finished his career.

Little won one cap for the Scotland national team, against Sweden in 1953. Little also played for the Scottish League XI twice.

Little went on to teach physical education at St Columba's Greenock in the late 1960s and at the Sacred Heart Secondary in Paisley in the early 1970s.