I was on the organizing committee for the 2006
INFORMS Annual Meeting, which was held in
Pittsburgh. I served as Sponsored Sessions Co-chair
(along with Javier Pena of CMU) and as Local Liaison for
the Teachers
Workshop.
I develop free software and open-source software for
optimization:
I am active in the COIN-OR
Foundation, Inc., which manages the Computational
Infrastructure for Operations Research (COIN-OR) project.