We show that with recently developed derandomization techniques, one can convert Clarkson's randomized algorithm for linear programming in fixed dimension into a linear-time deterministic one. The constant of proportionality is $d^{O(d)}$, which is better than for previously known such algorithms. We show that the algorithm works in a fairly general abstract setting, which allows us to solve various other problems, e.g., computing the minimum-volume ellipsoid enclosing a set of $n$ points, finding the maximum volume ellipsoid in the intersection of $n$ halfspaces.

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On Linear-time Deterministic Algorithms for Optimization Problems in Fixed Dimension. Bernard Chazelle and Jiri Matousek, Journal of Algorithms 21(3), 1996, pp. 579-595.