John Tomlin
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.
tomlin@yahoo-inc.com / Last modified: 17 Sep 2010