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COMPANY NEWS ILOG Forms Technical Advisory Board To keep its software among the most advanced, ILOG has formed a Technical Advisory Board to further strengthen the company’s ties with the technical and scientific community. Dr. Robert Bixby has stepped down from the ILOG Board of Directors to chair the new committee. Dr. Bixby was appointed to the board of directors in 1997 after ILOG’s purchase of CPLEX Optimization, Inc., which he co-founded. Dr. Bixby is a Noah Harding Professor Emeritus of Computational and Applied Mathematics at Rice University and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. "Bob’s technical credentials and leadership through his tenure on the ILOG board and as co-director of our optimization research and development efforts," says Pierre Haren, ILOG CEO, "make him the right person to lead our efforts to keep ILOG technology on the cutting edge of the industry." ILOG Chief Technology Officer and co-founder Patrick Albert is also a member of the new committee, and to ensure input from international sources, Dr. Martin Groetschel, vice president of the Konrad Center for Information Technology at the Technical University in Berlin; Gilles Kahn, a vice president at INRIA, the French national institute for computer science; and Dr. Ben Shneiderman of the Department of Computer Science of the College Park University, Maryland, have been appointed. Dr. Groetschel is well known for his work in the fields of math programming and operations research. Dr. Kahn is one of Europe’s leading experts in the fields of computer science and information technology and has held numerous scientific committee posts. Dr. Schneiderman is a founding director of College Park University’s Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory.
European Customer Services Centered in France ILOG has consolidated its European customer support services at the company’s headquarters in Gentilly, France. The services provide training and hot-line assistance to customers throughout Europe. For more information, please visit our web sites:
E-Optimization.com Makes Debut ILOG lifted the veil on the new e-Optimization Community (www.e-Optimization.com) at the Institute of Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS) conference in Salt Lake City in May. The vendor-neutral web site is designed to increase awareness of optimization technology through easy-to-understand documentation, and bring together academics, end users and professional programmers to share their knowledge and accomplishments. The online community has already attracted contributions from many top companies and research institutions in the optimization field. Participating companies include CAP Gemini, EDS, PeopleSoft, Sabre Technologies, SCT and SAP, while more than 24 academic institutions, including Carnegie Mellon, Georgia Tech and Princeton, are fully aboard. The community is available at no charge to any organization or individual interested in optimization. "By bring FORMS, "e-Optimization.com supports INFORMS’ efforts to extend the professionalism and reach of the industry." The new site offers general background and technical information for experts and non-experts, with quick, easy access to industry trends, technologies and resources.
Jean-François Abramatic, chairman of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), has been appointed senior vice president of research and development, reporting to ILOG President and CEO Pierre Haren. Abramatic resigned from the ILOG Board of Directors, which he joined in 1994, to take the new position.
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