Solving real-world linear programs: a decade and more of progress

This paper is an invited contribution to the 50th anniversary issue of the journalOper-ations Research, published by the Institute of Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS). It describes one persons perspective on the development of com-putational tools for linear programming. The paper begins with a short, personal his-tory, followed by historical remarks covering the some 40 years of linear-programming developments that predate my own involvement in this subject. It concludes with a more detailed look at the evolution of computational linear programming since 1987.