Nathan Brixius

I've had a few requests on this topic, so I thought I would give a simple example of how to write code against Solver Foundation's interior point solver. If you are new to Solver Foundation, be warned that this is something of an "advanced topic". The Read More...

Lengning Liu has written a great post that highlights another exciting Solver Foundation 2.0 area: a Solver Foundation ODSL in F# . (F# is a functional programming language for .Net.) The ODSL provides an intuitive, cool way to express LP and MIP problems. Read More...

I left a small cliffhanger in my last post . After a long week I finally had a chance to read through the Adams paper about estimating the value of "going for it" on 4th down. I admit I was a little bit let down. As a reminder - the question is what action Read More...

Last weekend marked the first big college football Saturday of the year. The only game I really cared about (now that I am married and have kids) was the Northern Iowa – Iowa game: I went to Iowa , and I grew up in Cedar Falls (home of the UNI campus). Read More...

I'm back from ISMP and helping to put the finishing touches on Solver Foundation 2.0. In our first version we introduced: our declarative modeling language OML; Solver Foundation Services, which provides a powerful, consistent .Net API for modeling and Read More...