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From:          "Randy K. Schwartz" <[log in to unmask]> Subject:       Golden Jubilee of simplex algorithm 
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     This summer marks the 50th anniversary of George Dantzig*s invention of 
the simplex algorithm. I would appreciate any references to printed, 
on-line 
or audiovisual materials _accessible to a community college student_ 
writing 
an essay to mark this anniversary. 
 
     I am aware of the following two items: 
 
Donald J. Albers with Constance Reid, **An Interview with George B. 
Dantzig: 
The Father of Linear Programming**, _College Mathematics Journal_ 17:4 
(Sept. 
1986), pp. 293-313. 
 
Robert Freund et al., **Professor George Dantzig: Linear Programming 
Founder 
Turns 80**, _SIAM News_ (November 1994) (also available at 
<http://www-or.stanford.edu/faculty/dantzig.art.html>) 
 
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