{"id":262,"date":"2008-04-13T22:37:30","date_gmt":"2008-04-14T02:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=256"},"modified":"2008-04-13T22:37:30","modified_gmt":"2008-04-14T02:37:30","slug":"some-miscellany-from-the-informs-practice-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/04\/13\/some-miscellany-from-the-informs-practice-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Miscellany from the INFORMS Practice Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some random things from today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informs.org\/Conf\/Practice08\">INFORMS Practice Conference<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sanjay Saigal, popular columnist for <a href=\"http:\/\/lionhrtpub.com\/ORMS.shtml\"><em>OR\/MS Today<\/em><\/a> and founder\/CEO of Intechne, formerly of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilog.com\">ILOG<\/a>, just to continue a theme, chided me for not pointing to his blog.  I actually read his blog, but he normally blogs on non-OR things.  It is great (with a great title):  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanjaysaigal.com\">check out &#8220;Another Argumentative Indian&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I met Sandy Holt, who had given me a <a href=\"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=223\">blog idea<\/a>.  If you see me, don&#8217;t hesitate to say &#8220;hi!&#8221;:  I&#8217;d love to meet more of you who have emailed me over the past couple of years.<\/li>\n<li>I had a good long chat with <a href=\"http:\/\/cee.mit.edu\/index.pl?id=2279\">Cindy Barnhart<\/a>.  Cindy is the current President of INFORMS, and is an associate dean of engineering at MIT.  For a person who seems pretty laid back, she certainly seems to get a lot done!<\/li>\n<li>I also had a long chat with Irv Lustig from ILOG.  Irv is extremely upbeat about CPLEX at ILOG, just as Alkis Vazacopoulos<span><\/span> is very upbeat about Dash and Fair Isaac.   As OR becomes more mainstream (in a form known as &#8220;Advanced Business Analytics&#8221;, with &#8220;Business Analytics&#8221; being &#8220;look at your data!&#8221;), it is natural that the software firms would act more like businesses, being bought and sold, and having turnover.  Perhaps I overly worry about the various changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>OK, time for dinner and an early bedtime.  My buddy from graduate school, Chris Lofgren, now CEO of Schneider is speaking first thing in the morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some random things from today&#8217;s INFORMS Practice Conference: Sanjay Saigal, popular columnist for OR\/MS Today and founder\/CEO of Intechne, formerly of ILOG, just to continue a theme, chided me for not pointing to his blog. I actually read his blog, but he normally blogs on non-OR things. It is great (with a great title): check &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/04\/13\/some-miscellany-from-the-informs-practice-conference\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Some Miscellany from the INFORMS Practice Conference&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,13,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-and-web","category-companies","category-conferences","category-people"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}