At IBM's research lab in Yorktown Heights, New York, computer scientist Baruch Schieber is using linear programming to help an IBM client schedule hours for 250 workers at a call center.

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His ambitious plans for a new computer lab for MIT, the world's leading electronics research university, combine both elements to create a complex of crazy buildings clad in traditional brick with steel-clad classrooms and meeting rooms.

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