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).

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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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johntomlin@acm.org / Last modified: 5 May 2012