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Gazis, Denos Constantinos was born on September 15, 1930 in Salonica, Greece. Arrived in United States, 1953, naturalized, 1960. Son of Evangelos George and Lila Constantine (Veniamin) Gazis.
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“Everything should be made as simple as possible―but not simpler” Albert Einstein Traffic Theory, like all other sciences, aims at understanding and improving a physical phenomenon. The phenomenon addressed by Traffic Theory is, of course, automobile traffic, and the problems associated with it such as traffic congestion. But what causes congestion? Some time in the 1970s, Doxiades coined the term "oikomenopolis" (and "oikistics") to describe the world as man's living space. In Doxiades' terms, persons are associated with a living space around them, which describes the range that they can cover through personal presence. In the days of old, when the movement of people was limited to walking, an individual oikomenopolis did not intersect many others. The automobile changed all that. The term "range of good" was also coined to describe the maximal distance a person can and is willing to go in order to do something useful or buy something. Traffic congestion is caused by the intersection of a multitude of such "ranges of good" of many people exercising their range utilisation at the same time. Urban structures containing desirable structures contribute to this intersection of "ranges of good". xii Preface In a biblical mood, I opened a 1970 paper entitled "Traffic Control -- From Hand Signals to Computers" with the sentence: "In the beginning there was the Ford".
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Gazis, Denos Constantinos was born on September 15, 1930 in Salonica, Greece. Arrived in United States, 1953, naturalized, 1960. Son of Evangelos George and Lila Constantine (Veniamin) Gazis.
Came to the United States, 1953, naturalized, 1960. Bachelor of Science, Technology U. Athens (Greece), 1952. Master of Science, Stanford University, 1954.
Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering mechanics, Columbia University, 1957.
Senior research scientist General Motors Company, Warren, Michigan, 1957—1961. With International Business Machines Corporation, 1961—1995, director general science department, 1970—1974. Technical advisor to vice president International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, New York, chief scientist, 1975—1977.
Consultant to vice president International Business Machines Corporation, Yorktown Heights, director research, 1977—1979, assistant director computer science department, 1979—1982, assistant director semiconductor science & technical department, 1982—1995. President Gazis Associates, from 1995. Visiting professor Yale University, 1969—1970.
Associate editor Computing, 1969—1976. Associate editor Transportation Science, 1970—1982. Editor Transportation Science, 1983—1986.
Associate editor Networks, 1971—1981. Advisory editor Networks, from 1981.
(“Everything should be made as simple as possible―but not ...)
Member of American Association for the Advancement of Science, Building Research Board, Commission Engineering & Technology Systems, transportation research board National Research Council-National Academy of Sciences, Operations Research Society America.
Married Jean Ellen Ryniker, September 15, 1974. Children: Paul, Jean, Lynn, Andrew, Carey, Jessie, Alexander, James, Kyle.