
John Tomlin
FICO, Inc.
johntomlin@fico.com
and (part time)
opTomax Solutions,
850 Hanover Avenue,
Sunnyvale, CA 94087
johntomlin@acm.org
(408)744-2479
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Professional Interests
For most of my career I've
worked on aspects of computational mathematical programming, including in
particular:
- Research
in optimization methods
- Development
of optimization software
- Work
on customer applications in operations research.
I've also worked on models
for the web graph and web search.
(See my bibliography
or short resume).
Personal Interests
In no particular order:
- Jazz
: Traditional and mainstream. Favourites: Louis
Armstrong, Duke Ellington,
Johnny
Hodges, Ben Webster. I think I
have every record Johnny
Dodds ever made. I'm just starting to get into slightly more modern
stuff: Bird, Diz,, Getz etc.
- Reading : Mostly science fiction, humour, history (particularly
naval/military history) and mysteries. A few favourite authors are Len Deighton, Clive
James, Arthur C. Clarke
and Larry Niven.
- Sports: I enjoy watching Cricket,
Rugby, (both Union and League ) and
Australian football.
- Cooking: Mostly country French and Indian. Favourite cookbooks: Julia
Child, Graham Kerr, Len Deighton
(again), Madhur Jaffrey, Joy of Cooking, The Complete Oriental Cookbook.
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