Resources at MIT

• Operations Research Center (ORC)
• Program in Computation for Design and Optimization (CDO)
• Open Courseware Subjects

Free Software

• AMPL Student Version - algebraic modeling language for linear/nonlinear optimization problems (discrete or continuous variables)
• SDPT3 version 4.0 (beta) - MATLAB software for semidefinite-quadratic-linear programming

Data Sets

• NETLIB LP Test Problems (more information here)
• SDPLIB SDP Test Problems

Other Links

• Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
• Tom Cavalier's Optimization Links
• Optimization Online - an e-print site for the optimization community