John
Jr. Kettelle
The bulk of his
professional and business career has been in operations research.
Most of it in his own company, Ketron, Inc., which by 1995 had 300
employees and annual revenues of $25,000,000. Ketron business and
technical activities included marketing research, mathematical
progamming, war games and business games, detection and
discrimination, reliability, and high-speed hulls.
He presently has two
favorite projects. The first is what he calls a "computerized third
party" (CTP). In a negotiation, the last thing either side should do it
tell the other how far he is willing to go. The CTP is a device that
first, lets both sides discover whether there is in fact room for a deal,
and if so, actually agree on an efficient deal.
The second addresses
a double problem of capitalism - it has to protect the public from
monopolies, which can inhibit efficiencies that can otherwise result
from cooperation instead of competition.
AB in Electronic
Physics (Harvard) 1945
ScM in Marhematics (Brown)
1949
US Navy: 3 years in
WWII, Amphibious Warfare
2 years in Korea,
Submarine Warfare
