AMPL offers superior support by our development and technical support teams.
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AMPL offers superior support by our development and technical support teams.
Contact us for general queries, partnerships, and more.
We can help you find the license and offering that works best for your situation.
AMPL has a long history of commitment to bringing this accessible modeling language to the world. From its beginnings with the founders at Bell Labs, to its expansion into the company it is today, AMPL has never lost sight of what AMPL is and who it was created for.
AMPL’s long history of growth, development and expansion began its journey over 20 years ago. Working at Bell Laboratories, founders Robert Fourer, David M. Gay and Brian W. Kernighan developed AMPL to help people communicate optimization models to computer systems, by leveraging the power and convenience of familiar algebraic formulations.
Following its general release, AMPL’s reputation grew rapidly, supporting new implementations of traditional optimization models and motivating applications in new areas. The book AMPL: A Modeling Language for Mathematical Programming became the best-recognized introduction to practical algebraic modeling.
For several years, AMPL remained part of Lucent Technologies, the company that became parent to Bell Laboratories. Eventually the founders of AMPL were able to become more officially involved in the support of the customers and growth of AMPL.
In 2010, Robert Fourer and David M. Gay met with and recruited Bill Wells to join AMPL and become the CEO. This marked the beginning of a new professional commitment and trajectory for AMPL as it was also at this time that David Gay left his employment at Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque, and began working on AMPL full time.
AMPL grew to full independence with the dissolution of AMPL Optimization LLC, and the launch of AMPL Optimization Inc., a California C-Corporation, in 2013. Since then, we have dedicated our professional efforts to providing the best optimization tools to professionals throughout business, engineering, science, and education. The response has been enthusiastic, driving steadily increasing demand and establishing AMPL as a fundamental tool in the practice of analytics.
Today AMPL is a team of 15 members, with most of us focused on continued product development and the support of our customers. Our development teams boast extraordinary talent in optimization and mathematical modeling. AMPL has also expanded to include departments of marketing, consulting and of course, sales, customer support and partnership relations.
Our customers are some of the top performing companies in over 40 major industries globally. Our continued partnerships allow us to bring the worlds best solvers, while our in-house developments of APIs, data connectors and more, provides you with a one stop shopping experience to support your application from conception through development and all the way to integration and user rollout.
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“I would have loved to spend my whole career at Bell Labs — a fantastic place — but that was not to be. In 2003 the ‘‘dot com bubble’’ burst. Lucent Technologies, which after the breakup of the Bell System had become the parent company of Bell Labs, fell on hard times.”
AMPL was developed by Robert Fourer, David Gay, and Brian Kernighan at Bell Laboratories. Today, AMPL supports dozens of solvers, both open source and commercial software, including BARON, COPT, CPLEX, CONOPT, Gurobi, KNITRO, LGO, LINDO Global, LOQO, MINOS, Octeract, SNOPT, and Xpress. AMPL is used by more than 100 corporate clients, and by government agencies and academic institutions.
AMPL is continually expanding into new industries with enhanced products and world-class consulting services. We are always interested in talking with talented and self-motivated individuals in marketing, design, consulting, and of course, mathematical software development. Learn more here about our current job listings.