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Solver Foundation on Hanselminutes

Posted Wednesday, December 09, 2009 7:57 AM by Nathan Brixius
The latest edition of Scott Hanselman 's Hanselminutes podcast features yours truly. We talked about Solver Foundation, numerical optimization, and good old-fashioned code optimization. Scott's a great guy and doing the podcast was a lot of fun. Those Read More...
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Int'l Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Day 2

Posted Thursday, August 27, 2009 8:22 PM by Nathan Brixius
Here are my notes from the second day of ISMP . ( Here are my day 1 notes. ) I spent the whole day going to IPM talks: Meszaros : Unfortunately I missed the plenary talk by Friedrich Eisenbrand due to microbrews. I attended an IPM session after that - Read More...
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Int'l Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Day 1

Posted Wednesday, August 26, 2009 6:35 AM by Nathan Brixius
I am attending the ISMP math programming conference in Chicago, representing the Solver Foundation team. Here are some of my impressions of Day 1 at ISMP: Plenary [Steven Boyd]: The plenary speaker was Steve Boyd who talked about real-time embedded convex Read More...
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Solver Foundation TSP Part II: Directives, Solver Plugins, Model Libraries

Posted Thursday, May 07, 2009 8:47 PM by Nathan Brixius
Here is my as-promised "part 2" to my traveling salesman sample . My goal is not to try and do any "production level" modeling, but instead "point the way" by highlighting different aspects of Solver Foundation's architecture. This time I want to talk Read More...
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Solving traveling salesman problems using Solver Foundation

Posted Monday, April 27, 2009 8:18 AM by Nathan Brixius
Here's an example that I walked through during yesterday's INFORMS session. Erwin has two blog postings about Solver Foundation and the traveling salesman problem, but I want to throw in my two cents because I want to emphasize a couple of points: By Read More...
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Solver Foundation 1.2 released!

Posted Saturday, April 18, 2009 8:48 PM by Nathan Brixius
I am pleased to announce that Solver Foundation v1.2 is live on solverfoundation.com ! Our goal in 1.2 was to make a few key improvements to address feedback that we have received from partners and customers. If you have feedback, questions, suggestions…please Read More...
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Resource constrained scheduling; OML tutorials

Posted Tuesday, March 31, 2009 7:43 PM by Nathan Brixius
Two weeks back I posted two articles showing how easy it is to model critical path scheduling using Microsoft Solver Foundation . I received a few emails asking about various extensions; I will be covering those in upcoming posts. Julian just wrote a Read More...
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Microsoft Solver Foundation version 1.1 released

Posted Wednesday, February 18, 2009 7:34 AM by Nathan Brixius
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...
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Solver Foundation used to schedule Microsoft Tech Days '09

Posted Wednesday, January 21, 2009 7:57 PM by Nathan Brixius
Pascal Belaud of Microsoft France recently used Microsoft Solver Foundation to schedule the big Microsoft Tech Days '09 conference in sunny Paris, France. The conference has over 16,000 attendees, with hundreds of presentations involving hundreds of speakers Read More...
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Announcing Microsoft Solver Foundation

Posted Friday, November 14, 2008 10:26 AM by Nathan Brixius
I'm pleased to announce the availability of the first version of Microsoft Solver Foundation ! Simply put, Solver Foundation is a set of modeling tools and solvers to help you make smart decisions when confronted with complex requirements and priorities. Read More...
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