{"id":857,"date":"2009-09-15T16:31:43","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T20:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=857"},"modified":"2009-09-15T16:31:43","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T20:31:43","slug":"become-famous-by-winning-the-coin-or-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/09\/15\/become-famous-by-winning-the-coin-or-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Become Famous by Winning the COIN-OR Cup!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-858\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" title=\"COIN-OR_CMYK-296\" src=\"https:\/\/fac-mtrick02.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/COIN-OR_CMYK-296.png\" alt=\"COIN-OR_CMYK-296\" width=\"99\" height=\"99\" \/>Do you use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coin-or.org\">COIN-OR<\/a> (open source software for operations research)?\u00a0 According to the log files, lots and lots of people do!\u00a0 If you are doing something interesting with COIN-OR and are planning to attend the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informs.org\/Conf\/SanDiego09\">San Diego INFORMS Meeting<\/a>, I strongly encourage you to enter the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coin-or.org\/coinCup\/coinCup09.html\">COIN-OR Cup<\/a>!\u00a0 You could join <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coin-or.org\/coinCup\/coinCup2005Winner.html\">John Forrest<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coin-or.org\/coinCup\/coinCup2006Winner.html\">Jonathan Eckstein+Bill Hart+Cindy Phillips<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coin-or.org\/coinCup\/coinCup2007Winner.html\">John Tomlin<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coin-or.org\/coinCup\/coinCup2008Winner.html\">team from the Environmental Protection Agency + Sandia National Labs<\/a> (including Jonathan Berry) as a winner of this prestigious Cup!\u00a0 Fame and drinks will be yours forever!\u00a0 Despite appearances, you do not need a John or Jonathan on your team to win, though it seems to help.<\/p>\n<p>More seriously, if you have used COIN-OR in a neat application (or have advanced COIN-OR in a significant direction), it would be great to hear about it through an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coin-or.org\/coinCup\/coinCup09.html\">application for the award<\/a>.\u00a0 This would let the COIN people know of all the great ways the software is being used and help bring together the COIN-OR community.\u00a0 The deadline is October 2, so don&#8217;t delay.\u00a0 And thanks to IBM for sponsoring the reception (which is always a real highlight for the whole COIN-OR community).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you use COIN-OR (open source software for operations research)?\u00a0 According to the log files, lots and lots of people do!\u00a0 If you are doing something interesting with COIN-OR and are planning to attend the San Diego INFORMS Meeting, I strongly encourage you to enter the COIN-OR Cup!\u00a0 You could join John Forrest, Jonathan Eckstein+Bill &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/09\/15\/become-famous-by-winning-the-coin-or-cup\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Become Famous by Winning the COIN-OR Cup!&#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":[10,28,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-challenges","category-informs","category-open-source"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857","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=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}