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About Me<\/h2>\t
James B. Orlin is the E. Pennell Brooks (2017) Professor in Management.<\/em> \u00a0He specializes in network and combinatorial optimization. He has helped develop improved solution methodologies for a variety of network optimization problems, with applications to transportation, computer science, operations, and marketing.
\n\nJim Orlin's Bio<\/a>: as written by ChatGPT for a fantasy adventure story.<\/div><\/div>

About My Family<\/h2>

My wife, Lark Palermo, was the CEO of\u00a0Habitat for Humanity Greater Boston<\/span><\/a> until December 2020, and is now retired.<\/p>\n

My son, Ben, has authored three books on popular mathematics:\u00a0 \u00a0Math with Bad Drawings<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(2018),\u00a0Change is the Only Constant<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(2019), and\u00a0Math Games with Bad Drawings.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 His Twitter handle is @benorlin.\u00a0 Ben's wife, Taryn Flock, teaches math at Macalester College.\u00a0 Together, they have two children: Casey and Devyn.<\/p>\n

My daughter Jenna Orlin Laib is a K-8 math specialist at the Driscoll School in Brookline, MA.\u00a0 Her blog is entitled \"Embrace the Challenge<\/span><\/a>.\"\u00a0 Her Twitter handle is @jennalaib.\u00a0 Jenna's husband, Farid Laib, is an IT manager specializing in cyber security.\u00a0 Together, they have two children: Soraya and Skander.<\/p>\n

My other son Cash has collaborated on several podcasts including\u00a0Co-pilots<\/span><\/a>\u00a0with Matt Greenberg.\u00a0 \u00a0Co-pilots was a humorous podcast about TV shows that lasted at most once season.<\/p>\n

My stepson Justin Palermo is a software engineer.<\/p>\n

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