Charles Miller Smith, ScottishPower's Chairman, said "I am delighted to welcome
Simon Lowth to his new role within ScottishPower. The company
is privately held, with offices in Cambridge, MA, Vienna, VA, and Houston, TX.

He was a graduate of Cambridge University, and later held the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics there.

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I also want to thank David Nish for
his very significant contribution over the last five years. The IAIP identifies and assesses current and future threats to the
homeland, maps those threats against the nation's vulnerabilities, issues
timely warnings and takes preventative and protective action.

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PRESS RELEASE Scottish Power PLC Announces ScottishPower Appoints Simon Lowth Executive Director Finance and Strategy

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He has done a very good job
heading our strategic development over the last eighteen months and we look
forward to working with him in the future.
MetaCarta has developed a Knowledge Management tool that bridges the gap
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ScottishPower Appoints Simon Lowth Executive Director , Finance and Strategy

ScottishPower announced today that with effect from 24 May 2005, Simon Lowth,
currently ScottishPower's Board Director responsible for Corporate Strategy and
Development , will be appointed Executive Director, Finance and Strategy.

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MetaCarta is a trademark of MetaCarta, Incorporated.

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Founded by a
team of MIT researchers in 1999, MetaCarta provides groundbreaking technology
that bridges the gap between Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and text
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Prior to
that he was a Director of McKinsey and Company, responsible for leading its
Industrial Practice in the UK , serving clients in the Energy and Utilities
sectors among others.

MetaCarta Signs Contract with Department of Homeland Security

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He
succeeds David Nish, who will take up his previously announced appointment as
Executive Director, Infrastructure Division on the same date.

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"MetaCarta is proud
to offer Geographic Text Search to the DHS," said Randy Ridley, MetaCarta's
Vice President and General Manager of Public Sector Systems.

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Simon, 43, joined ScottishPower in his current role in September 2003 .

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WASHINGTON, MetaCarta(R), Inc., a leading
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nation and its infrastructure. The company presents innovative solutions that improve decision-making
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It assigns
a latitude and longitude to these references so that users can analyze their
text archives using geographic maps, keywords and time as filters.

He is most famous for his ideas about building an 'analytical engine', the predecessor of the digital computer.

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His new job running
a key part of our group will allow him to broaden his experience.

He was born December 26th, 1791 in Teignmouth, Devonshire and died October 18th, 1871, London.

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