Here are related news items from
HPCWire,
London Financial Times,
and
TechWeb
(all three reprinted in Parallel Computing Research).
A larger-scale
color picture
of our optimal solution against a background of
mountain ranges and lowlands
has been included in Martin
Grötschel and Manfred Padberg, "Die optimierte Odyssee",
Spektrum der Wissenschaft 4/99, pp. 76 -- 85.