Bob Fourer
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President, AMPL Optimization Inc. · Professor Emeritus, Northwestern University
Evanston, IL, USA
Joined December 2008
I have completed an interview for the "Subject to" podcast hosted by Prof. Anand Subramanian. A video is available on the "Subject to" channel of YouTube at https://t.co/kKR34Ispct, and the audio can be accessed on several podcast platforms listed at https://t.co/GKDucHiO2C.
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"Subject to" offers a series of informal conversations with relevant figures in the fields of Operations Research, Combinatorial Optimization and Logistics, and they are hosted by Anand Subramanian,...
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I'll be presenting this workshop at INFORMS Analytics in Houston next week. https://t.co/eZF1TUiHWR It's an end-to-end view of how AMPL is used in applications, from prototyping to development to deployment, featuring some notable recent additions to the AMPL toolkit.
Attending INFORMS Analytics in Houston April 4-6? Join us for a comprehensive AMPL Workshop on "Adding Optimization to Your Applications, Quickly and Reliably: From Prototyping to Integration" Sunday 3-4:45, Marriott Kingwood B. Details at https://t.co/zCJQlhzZ4c
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Announcing our Technology Workshop at the INFORMS Business Analytics Conference https://t.co/7gPN2HMSM4: "Adding Optimization to Your Applications, Quickly and Reliably: From Prototyping to Integration with AMPL" Sunday, April 3, details at https://t.co/eZF1TUiHWR
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Attend #2022Analytics on April 3-5, 2022, in Houston, TX, and discover dozens of real-world case studies highlighting how data science and analytics professionals are empowering organizations to make...
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One week left to submit a talk in the ** Software for Optimization ** stream at the EURO 2022 conference, 3-6 July in Finland https://t.co/FXyWYmzi4h If interested, reply with a tentative title, and I will send you an invitation with instructions to complete your submission
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From this week's IFORS conference, my talk on "How Linear Programming Became Practical" https://t.co/M3fwKfHnu6 (video), https://t.co/WTzMxlArYQ (slides) #optimization
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I'll be speaking (from home) to student groups at New York Univ (March 18) and Northeastern Univ (April 5) on "Modeling, not Programming: the 'Modern' Approach to Optimization in Operations Research"
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2021 Beale–Orchard-Hays Prize for Excellence in Computational Mathematical Programming *** Nomination Deadline March 15 *** Eligibility: written works 2015-2020 demonstrating excellence in any aspect of computational optimization. Details and instructions:
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I'm co-organizing the Optimization Software stream at EURO 2021 this summer. Deadline for submissions is this weekend! Thanks to this year's hybrid format, you can submit without making any travel commitments
Optimization software stream @euro2021Athens 11-14 July, ONLINE or IN ATHENS: Deadline to submit at https://t.co/Eiy4aI6gyC is this weekend! Use these session codes: 6ee3c870 LP/MIP, 01fdda27 NLP/MINLP, ab2a7b35 modeling software, 93ad51b6 deployment software, 9c0bd769 all other
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AMPL is hiring for a new position on the business side of the company #ORMS #Analytics #Optimization
Position available: Senior Marketing Professional with strong background and interest in software-related marketing, and familiarity with #optimization or another area of mathematical modeling
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Understand the optimization modeling lifecycle. Learn the benefits of model-based optimization. See case studies of successful applications in diverse businesses. Attend our INFORMS webinar this Thursday, Aug 27, 11:00 EDT (UTC-4) -- registration is free:
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Free webinars from top optimization researchers and business analytics solution providers.
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I'll be presenting the first in the new INFORMS series of sponsored webinars, on model-based optimization. Three new case studies included!
Attend our INFORMS webinar, August 27, 11:00 EDT (UTC-4) *** Adding Optimization to Your Applications: AMPL's Model-Based Approach to Fast Development and Reliable Deployment *** Free registration at
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LINDO Global 12.0 for AMPL now available from us, with extensive global optimization support including integer variables, trig functions, min/max/abs, floor/ceil/round/trunc. Learn more: https://t.co/MNNWGO1jHQ Get a demo/trial:
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September 2020 will mark the 35th anniversary of the first work on the AMPL project at Bell Labs, by David Gay, Brian Kernighan, and me. Hear Brian's recollections of that time in this interview by Lex Fridman
Brian Kernighan interviewed by @lexfridman on the origins and principles of AMPL: https://t.co/uO0hpQO0ED
#optimization #analytics #orms
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AMPL Optimization Inc. has posted an announcement of a new software development position. @AMPLopt #optimization
Position Available: Senior Optimization Software Developer: combines ability to build and support complex software, specifically in C and C++, with a strong background in the theory and practice of large-scale optimization. Details at
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New Direct Spreadsheet Interface to #AMPL #optimization models. Works with .xlsx files on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Improved support for multidimensional tables and for sheet names
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2nd of two videos just released: New in AMPL for 2020 https://t.co/AHk9VDiC9m featuring: Direct spreadsheet interface, Solver callbacks, Jupyter notebooks, Beyond the desktop with alternative computing environments & alternatives for access to AMPL
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1st of two videos just released: "Model-Based Optimization with AMPL" https://t.co/J34Fc6BsgB featuring: model-based vs. method-based approaches, modeling language vs. programming language approaches, declarative vs. executable approaches
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The Chicago Chapter of INFORMS is hosting a conference on November 12, 2019. The topic is "Operationalizing AI: Exploring Everything from Talent to Innovative #AI Implementation". Still time to register! https://t.co/0UAH1o1s4Q
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I gave a half-hour talk on model-based optimization at DecisionCAMP 2019, but I have posted the slides for the full hour-long version.
Model-Based Optimization for Effective and Reliable Decision-Making -- See the slides from Robert Fourer's AMPL talk at DecisionCAMP 2019, with new examples and case studies:
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I'll be bringing the case for model-based optimization to a an audience of business rules experts and developers next week.
AMPL's Robert Fourer is speaking next week on "Model-Based Optimization for Effective and Reliable Decision-Making" at DecisionCAMP 2019 in Bolzano, Italy, 17-19 September
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