Probably the most eventful occurrence at the recent Mathematical Programming Symposium at Stanford was Dr. Hugo Scolnik's presentation of his New Approach to Linear Programming. This approach rapidly became the subject of much discussion, and a somewhat hastily written version (and later an addendum) of the presentation was distributed in response to the general clamor (this material was reproduced in the last issue of this Newsletter). By the end of the symposium the odds seemed to have shifted to the viewpoint that Scolnik may indeed have a major new result.
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