The WSC Foundation

The purpose of the WSC Foundation is to manage a fund to help ensure the continuance and high quality of the Winter Simulation Conference and to provide loans and grants that allow the conference to add new features. Everyone in the international simulation community is deeply indebted to the patrons listed below for their unwavering support. In the case of multiple donations from the same individual, corporation or organization, the amounts of the donations are cumulative in terms of determining the category of donation. For more information, please visit http://www.wscfoundation.org/.

Sustaining Patrons ($500 or More)

Anonymous Donations “In Honor of James Reed Wilson III” (2)
Anonymous Donors (2)
Brad Armstrong (CertainTeed)
Osman Balci (Virginia Tech)
William E. Biles (University of Louisville)
Justin Boesel (The MITRE Corporation)
Felix Breitenecker (ARGESIM-Vienna University of Technology)
John M. Charnes (The University of Kansas)
Ann Dunkin (Hewlett-Packard Company)
David M. Ferrin (Business Prototyping, Inc.)
John W. Fowler (Arizona State University)
Michael C. Fu (University of Maryland)
David Goldsman (Georgia Tech)
Peter and Laura Haas (IBM Corporation)
Raymond Hill (and the entire Dept. of Biomedical, Industrial, & Human Factors Engineering, Wright State University)
INFORMS-College on Simulation
Ricki G. Ingalls (Oklahoma State University)
Keebom Kang (Naval Postgraduate School)
W. David Kelton (University of Cincinnati)
Vlad Lewis and Natasha Smith, "In Memory of Peter A. W. Lewis"
Martin Miller (Business Prototyping, Inc.)

Douglas and Deanna Morrice (The University of Texas at Austin)
Richard E. Nance (Virginia Tech)
Barry L. Nelson (Northwestern University)
C. Dennis Pegden (Rockwell Software)
Charles H. Reilly (University of Central Florida)
Stephen D. Roberts (North Carolina State University)
Paul J. Sánchez (Naval Postgraduate School)
Susan M. Sanchez (Naval Postgraduate School)
Bruce W. Schmeiser (Purdue University)
Thomas J. Schriber (University of Michigan)
Donna and Lee Schruben (University of California, Berkeley)
Herb Schwetman (Mesquite Software, Inc.)
Leyuan Shi (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Jane L. Snowdon (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
Jeffrey D. Tew (General Motors Research and Development Center)
Michael R. Taaffe (Virginia Tech)
K. Preston White (University of Virginia)
Frederick P. Wieland (The MITRE Corporation)
James R. Wilson (North Carolina State University)
Enver Yücesan (INSEAD)

Gold Patrons ($250 - $499)

Simaan AbouRizk (University of Alberta)
Anonymous Donor
Athanassios N. Avramidis (University of Montreal)
Martha A. Centeno (Florida International University)
Russell C. H. Cheng (University of Southampton)
Randall Gibson (Automation Associates, Inc.)
Paul Glasserman (Columbia University)
Donald Gross (George Mason University)
Michael E. Kuhl (Rochester Institute of Technology)

Mani Mannivannan (Vector SCM)
Susumu Morito (Waseda University)
Kenneth Musselman (MAPICS, Inc.)
Ray J. Paul (and the entire Dept. of Information Systems & Computing, Brunel University)
Michael Pidd (Lancaster University)
Ralph Rogers (East Carolina University)
Robert G. Sargent (Syracuse University)
James J. Swain (The University of Alabama in Huntsville)
Brian Unger (University of Calgary)

Silver Patrons ($125 - $249)

Christos Alexopoulos (Georgia Tech)
Sigrún Andradóttir (Georgia Tech)
Anonymous Donor
Farhad Azadivar (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth)
Diane P. Bischak (University of Calgary)
John S. Carson, II (Brooks Automation, Inc.)
Chun-Hung Chen (George Mason University)
E. Jack Chen (BASF Corporation)
Paul A. Fishwick (University of Florida)
Seong-Hee Kim (Georgia Tech)
Averill M. Law (Averill Law & Associates)

Pierre L’Ecuyer (University of Montreal)
Gerald T. Mackulak (Arizona State University)
Daniel J. Muller (Brooks Automation, Inc.)
Julian Reitman (Retired)
Manuel D. Rossetti (University of Arkansas)
Robert E. Shannon (Texas A&M University)
J. D. Selby-Lucas (East Carolina University)
Jeffrey S. Smith (Auburn University)
Pandu Tadikamalla (University of Pittsburgh)
Peter D. Welch (Walpole Software)

Patrons (Any Amount)

Anonymous Donors (2)
Jerry Banks (Independent Consultant)
Maged M. Dessouky (University of Southern California)
Gerald W. Evans (University of Louisville)
Philip Heidelberger (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)
Joseph C. Hugan (Forward Vision Services)
Lawrence M. Leemis (The College of William & Mary)
D. J. Medeiros (The Pennsylvania State University)

David M. Nicol (University of Illinois)
Acácio M. O. Porta Nova (and the entire Dept. of Engineering & Management, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon)
Stephen M. Robinson (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Perwez Shahabuddin (Columbia University)
Charles R. Standridge (Grand Valley State University)
Thomas R. Willemain (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
David H. Withers (Retired)