Professor Emeritus Dimitri Bertsekas, influential computer scientist and prolific author, dies at 83

KEY POINTS

1. Dimitri Bertsekas, noted for his clear and elegant writing, influenced areas from control and optimization to large-scale computation and artificial intelligence and has died at age 83.
2. He was a prolific author whose textbooks and research have been widely used in related fields.
3. Bertsekas’s contributions to optimization and large-scale computation underpin many AI methods and algorithms, so his passing is significant for the research and engineering communities working in these areas.