College of Business: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Professor of Business Administration

Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 1975
M.A., Carnegie Mellon University, 1972
B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1971

Professor of Business Administration, University of Illinois, 1985 - Present
Assistant Professor of Business Administration, University of Illinois, 1976 - Present
Associate Professor, University of Illinois, 1980-1985
Visiting Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1980
Visiting Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University, 1975-1976

Blair, C. 1998. Sensitivity Analysis for Knapsack Problems: A Negative Result. Discrete Applied Mathematics, 81: 133-39

Blair, C. 1997. Integer and Mixed-Integer Programming. In Advances in Sensitivity Analysis and Parametric Programming, 9-1 to 9-25. Kluwer Academic Press.

Blair, C. 1995. A Closed-form Representation of Mixed-Integer Program Value Functions. Mathematical Programming, 127-136

Teaches linear and integer programming, game theory, computational complexity and cryptography.

Research interests include the theoretical aspects of operations research, game theory, and computers, especially encryption technology as it pertains to confidentiality.