I am happy to see the new DevLabs page for Solver Foundation , and our new Solver Foundation forum . Read all about it on Soma's blog . I also wanted to mention that over the next few weeks we will be announcing some great additions to the already impressive collection of connectors (aka plugins) for...

Two days ago, my boss's boss's boss's boss's boss's boss Soma announced the launch of several Technical Computing projects on Dev Labs. One of these projects, Sho , is an Iron Python-based environment for doing math, stats, optimization, and the like. Sho’s optimization libraries are powered by...

(As always, this post reflects my own views and not necessarily those of Microsoft.) I recently returned from the INFORMS conference on operations research in Austin, Texas. INFORMS is the most popular professional organization relating to the theory and practice of operations research - which includes...