Monthly Archives: November 2009
Facebook’s Farmville: What’s the Fastest Way to Get Rich?
One can’t help but notice that a lot of people have been playing Farmville on Facebook lately. Some of my relatives, friends, students and co-workers have taken the plunge. I don’t have time to play Farmville, but I thought it … Continue reading
Filed under Applications, Exam Fun, Facebook, Farmville, Integer Programming, Modeling, Teaching
YouTube Videos on Solving LPs with Excel
This had been in the back burner for a long while. Each time I taught my O.R. class (either undergrad or MBA), I kept thinking that the students would like to be able to see the Excel setup of an … Continue reading
Filed under Linear Programming, Modeling, Teaching, Videos, YouTube