July 2017 - Princeton Optimization

July 18, 2017

July 18, 2017

George Dantzig and Optimization under Uncertainty – A Potential Future for Analytics

In 2001 I interviewed George Dantzig, the father of linear programming, as part of a project that ILOG was doing at the time to capture the reminiscences of the recipients of the Founders Award from the Mathematical Programming Society (see page 2 of Optima 65 for a picture). Recently, the interviews were converted and transcribed […]

July 5, 2017

July 5, 2017

BY Steve Sashihara

Optimization and CPAs (Part 2)

This post is adapted from a presentation and discussion with the New Jersey Society of CPAs (NJCPA) in October 2014. Really Valuable Time Optimization practitioners know it is not time that is valuable—it is contiguous time. Having a large chunk of time—a solid one-hour or two-hour block—is much more valuable than the same number of […]