He joined forces with Donniell Fishkind to develop a system through which 10,000 schedule constraints and more than as many variables could be plugged into a supercomputer to spit out a workable schedule .
Donniell Fishkind is an associate research professor in Hopkins ' applied math and statistics department .
He joined forces with Donniell Fishkind , an associate research professor in Hopkins ' applied math and statistics department , to develop a system through which 10,000 schedule constraints and more than as many variables could be plugged into a supercomputer to spit out a workable schedule .