{"id":544,"date":"2009-02-04T10:56:52","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T14:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=544"},"modified":"2009-02-04T10:56:52","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T14:56:52","slug":"check-out-ilogs-dialog-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/02\/04\/check-out-ilogs-dialog-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Check out ILOG&#8217;s DIALOG blog!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am in Minneapolis, flying back to Pittsburgh after spending a couple days in Winnipeg for a memorial service for my Mom.\u00a0 My Mom&#8217;s passing has a number of effects, large and small.\u00a0 On the large side, my son Alexander has lost both his gradmothers in the past six months, which makes me sad:\u00a0 every kid needs plenty of grandparents to spoil them!\u00a0 Now my Dad will have to pick up all the slack.<\/p>\n<p>On the small side, I had to cancel a trip I was looking forwad to:\u00a0 ILOG&#8217;s DIALOG conference in Orlando.\u00a0 First, it is Orlando, which looks pretty sweet for a Pittsburgher in February.\u00a0 Second, with all of the changes for ILOG in the past year, I was looking forward to meeting people and seeing how the optimization side of ILOG was making out.\u00a0 No chance to do that, unfortunately, but ILOG has significant <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ilog.com\/events\/category\/dialog-09\/\">blog coverage of the conference<\/a>, which I recommend.\u00a0 Most of the guest bloggers are rules-oriented (my absence messes up the optimization covererage, I guess) but it was good to read that the plenary of Tom Rosamilia (head of WebSphere) sees how optimization fits in (from <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ilog.com\/events\/2009\/02\/03\/keynotes-ilog-ibm\/\">James Taylor&#8217;s blog entry<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tom identified four essentials for survival:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adapt to embrace change<\/li>\n<li>Streamline processes to make them more dynamic and manageable<\/li>\n<li>Optimize to allocate resources efficiently<\/li>\n<li>Visualize to transform insight into action for faster decisions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is not quite the way I see optimization (either it is <em>much<\/em> more than resource allocation, or resource allocation has a much broader definition than I usually give it!), but at least we hit the main points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am in Minneapolis, flying back to Pittsburgh after spending a couple days in Winnipeg for a memorial service for my Mom.\u00a0 My Mom&#8217;s passing has a number of effects, large and small.\u00a0 On the large side, my son Alexander has lost both his gradmothers in the past six months, which makes me sad:\u00a0 every &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/02\/04\/check-out-ilogs-dialog-blog\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Check out ILOG&#8217;s DIALOG blog!&#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":[11,13,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies","category-conferences","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","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=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}