Google now offers a new maps engine, running in its servers, for businesses. The idea is to use maps as documents to represent data. It seems FedEx has built some nice real-time application based on this to inform its customers […]

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A set of free User Defined Functions for Microsoft Excel® to create Sparklines. The simple, intense, word-sized graphics invented by Edward Tufte & implemented by Fabrice Rimlinger. Very good graphics to show results; more than Excel can offer. Enjoy it! […]

To translate one language into another, find the linear transformation that maps one to the other. Simple, say a team of Google engineers To translate one document, actual translation services rely on dictionaries and oversions of the same document in different languages. […]

Estudiantes de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) y de la Universidad Nacional del Litoral en Argentina (UNL), integrados en el equipo OptNAR, han obtenido la segunda posición en el concurso internacional AIMMS-MOPTA 2013 “Optimization Modeling Competition“, que organiza la […]

La Universidad Galileo ofrece un curso MOOC muy interesante sobre cómo utilizar la Rapsberry Pi. En este curso, el alumno conocerá esta micro computadora mostrándole qué se puede hacer, qué distribuciones existen, cómo desarrollar aplicaciones simples utilizando python y cómo […]

Three UPM students are finalist AIMMS/MOPTA modeling competition. The OptNAR team, consisting of Raúl Pulido, Natalia Ibañez and Adrián Aguirre (INTEC), will present the results of their solution to a specific ‘Operating theater planning problem’ at the MOPTA conference on […]

The French Operational Research (OR) and Decision Support Society (ROADEF) organizes exceptionaly jointly with the European Operational Research Society (EURO) the ROADEF/EURO challenge 2012 dedicated to trains assignment in collaboration with SNCF. This challenge is open to everyone, and particularly […]

How algorithms rule the world The NSA revelations highlight the role sophisticated algorithms play in sifting through masses of data. But more surprising is their widespread use in our everyday lives. So should we be more wary of their power? […]

In a sense, all business boils down to math. But some companies have tougher equations to solve than others. At UPS, the average driver makes about 120 deliveries per day, says Jack Levis, the shipping giant’s director of process management. […]