This is the twelfth post in an article series about MIT’s lecture course “Introduction to Algorithms.” In this post I will review a trilogy of lectures on graph and shortest path algorithms. They are lectures seventeen, eighteen and nineteen. They’ll cover Dijkstra’s Al...

Last week, people questioned my journalistic integrity. I’m not a journalist. I am a reporter, insofar as I report. Often times, I’m called a consultant, but I prefer advisor. I sometimes win awards for marketing, but I grapple with saying that I’m a marketer. Through my efforts, I...

At the intersection of a sinking economy and a new administration in the White House, there is no shortage of ideas on what the new president should do to rescue our butts from the abyss. Seems like all the pundits are formulating their “Letter to the New President� with their strategies on how ...

The Times Online offers a profile of author Christian Bök, whose novel Eunoia might win the award for most challenging writing constraint ever successfully implemented: Each chapter uses only one vowel. Not one vowel once, but the same vowel over and over again, in real words that are almost never ...

My company brought in John Mansour of ZigZag Marketing to do some refresher training and provide some ongoing guidance around our product management / product marketing function.  While I am not going into details about the company perspective on the training, I can provide an overvie...

Förutom att ha lekt med de Javabaserade villkorsprogrammeringssystemet Choco version 2 har även några MiniZinc-modeller skapats sen sist. Förra gången räknades till cirka 360 modeller (stora eller små). Nu är det cirka 440 stycken (stora och små), vilket innebär cirka 80 nya modeller. Som ...

I’ve spoken extensively about the unheralded — but, arguably, the most important — Pillar of The Toyota Production System: Respect for People. Today, I want to highlight an interesting company that appears to have done an amazing job at Participative Management and in eliminating f...

Som tidigare nämnts är Puzzles - Integer Programming in Recreational Mathematics en mycket trevlig samling pyssel skapad av Martin Chlond. De flesta problemen är klassiker inom området (recreational mathematics) och flera används som paradigmproblem i constraint programming eller integer progra...

Här är några MiniZinc-modeller som skapats sedan förra anteckningen om sådana modeller. Samtliga modeller att tilnå finns via My MiniZinc page. Digital Tomography samt några varianter Det problem som skrevs om i Ett litet april-pyssel löste jag själv med en digital tomografi-teknik. Se mode...

The bizarre fixation on the tax hike for ready-to-drink alcholic mixed drinks shows that they haven’t really got a lot to effectively gripe about with the first Rudd Budget, have they? How many of the small number of politics wonks who normally watch the Opposition Leader’s Budget reply ...