Nathan Brixius

Whew - an exciting and tiring week is over. We had hundreds of employees stop by our TechFest booth to ask questions, talk about their team's optimization or modeling problems, look at our demos, or simply hear more about Solver Foundation. A big thanks Read More...

Another busy day - we spoke with literally hundreds of Microsoft employees about Solver Foundation at TechFest '09. Microsoft is a huge company, so we got a chance to talk to people from many different parts of the company with varying backgrounds. Some Read More...

TechFest Day 1 was a blast. Tuesday is the "public day" where the press, partners, and academics are invited to check out a limited set of TechFest demos, including Solver Foundation . Me, Lengning and two of our colleagues from Microsoft Research manned Read More...

Microsoft TechFest 2009 kicks off next week here in Redmond, and I am pleased to be representing Solver Foundation along with my teammate Lengning. If you don't work for Microsoft, then you may not have had much exposure to TechFest. TechFest is important Read More...

Microsoft Solver Foundation version 1.1 has been released and the Express version can be downloaded for free here . 1.1 is a big deal because of the introduction of our solver plug-in model. This allows new or existing 3rd party solvers to interface with Read More...