Joseph O'Rourke is the Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Professor of Computer Science at Smith College and the founding chair of the Smith computer science department.
The problem is made difficult by the fact that the optimal box may not share any of its face planes with the convex hull of the point set.
[3] He was formerly the arXiv moderator for computational geometry and discrete mathematics.
[4] In 2012 O'Rourke was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
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