Optimization Catalyst
From Spreadsheets to AI Agents: Decades of Optimization with Frontline Systems and AMPL | Daniel Fylstra (Frontline Systems) and Christian Valente (AMPL Optimization)
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Recorded live at the Gurobi Summit in Las Vegas, this episode brings together two long-time partners whose histories with Gurobi go back to before the company was founded. They trace how Frontline Systems put optimization inside every copy of Excel and how AMPL turned complex math into a clear, compact modeling language. The conversation shows how problems that once maxed out at 200 decisions…