Ramsey Nasr, the National Poet, gave a raving speech against 'Bert' at the nominations Gala day, not knowing it was Benders, and claimed Bert was just jealous for not making it into the Top 100.
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In Februar 2013 Benders, as a situationist artwork, put a Bill Knott poem into the Turing National Poetry contest.
Benders' decomposition (alternatively, Benders's decomposition; named after Jacques F. Benders) is a technique in mathematical programming that allows the solution of very large linear programming problems that have a special block structure.
He graduated in 1968 at the Eindhoven University of Technology advised by Jacques F. Benders for the thesis entitled "Decision rules in Markovian decision problems with Incompletely known transition probabilities" about Markov decision processes.