Beale-Orchard-Hays Prize

We are delighted to report that the NEOS team won the prestigious Beale-Orchard-Hays prize for Excellence in Computational Mathematical Programming. The presentation took place August 18 at the 18th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming in Copenhagen.

The Beale-Orchard-Hays prize is awarded once every three years. The cited paper is "Optimization on the NEOS Server", by E. Dolan, R. Fourer, J. More', T. Munson, that appeared in SIAM News (volume 35, #6, 2002). One can get a copy at

www.siam.org/siamnews/07-02/neos.pdf