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 coauthoredMind Over Machine with his brother Hubert Dreyfus in 1986.