In statements from House Science Committee chairman Sherwood
Boehlert (R-NY) and ranking member Lincoln Davis (D-TN), both underscored
their belief that IT advances are fundamental to the nation's productivity and
economic health, and expressed concern about the diminished federal role in
supporting computing research. "Our concern is that
the total level of national investment in fundamental IT research needs to be
restored to meet the needs of our economy in an increasingly competitive
world. The goal of global
optimization is to find the absolute best answer for models that have
a number of possible solutions, a process that can be extremely
difficult without the best tools. Maplesoft products embody the
most advanced and integrated technology for both numeric and symbolic
solution of complex problems.com

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ABOUT USACM
The ACM U. government organizations, the
computing community, and the U."
The Global Optimization Toolbox is part of the Maple Professional
Toolbox series of add -on products that greatly extend the scope and
functionality of Maplesoft products in specialized application areas., a system for
automated grading of mathematics tests.

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"This confirms the concerns expressed by the computing research community
that DARPA has essentially pulled out of funding long-term computing research
at U. Frequently, engineers and
researchers are forced to settle for solutions that are "good enough"
at the expense of extra time, money, and resources, because the best
solution has not been found. "Using the Global Optimization
Toolbox, users can formulate optimization models easily inside the
powerful Maple numeric and symbolic system, and then use world -class
Maple numeric solvers to return the best answer, fast.
Additionally, virtually every major university and research institute
in the world, including MIT, Stanford, Oxford and Waterloo, has
adopted Maple products to enhance their education and research
activities. For more information , visit www.----Breault Research
Organization Inc.com

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Optimization is the science of finding solutions that satisfy
complicated constraints and objectives.

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WASHINGTON, In a hearing today before the House
Science Committee, the committee indicated strong support for the position
held by ACM's U. Public Policy Committee (USACM), the Computing Research
Association (CRA), and other computing societies that the federal government
has shifted its focus away from long-term research in Information Technology,
which has been so vital to America's prowess in defense and essential to a
robust economy.
Patterson, a member of both the National Academy of Engineering and the
President's Information Technology Advisory Committee, cited DARPA's
diminished role in supporting computing research.S.acm. "Full global
optimization is critical and Maple's optimization add-on is the only
software I have tried that even comes close to solving these
problems. To complement
the most featured program available to optical system designers, BRO
offers optics training courses , technical support, technical
documentation and consulting services that are unsurpassed in the
optics industry.

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Congressman Davis said the national cannot afford to squander its
technological edge in a field that will only grow in importance."
He concluded that the US still has the world's strongest capability in
fundamental research in IT, and the most experience in how to leverage that
capability toward economic growth.org) is widely recognized as the premier organization for
computing professionals, delivering resources that advance the computing and
IT disciplines, enable professional development, and promote policies and
research that benefit society.S.

In business, constraints are related
to many factors, including cost, time and staff.

About Breault Research Organization (BRO)

Founded in 1979, BRO is an optical engineering firm providing
innovative solutions for the aerospace, automotive, biotechnology,
consumer electronics, defense, medical, semiconductor and
telecommunications industries.

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"IT research has driven innovation with results that reach well beyond the
IT sector," said David A.

Business Editors/High-Tech Editors

WATERLOO , Canada----Maplesoft(TM),
the leading provider of high-performance software tools for
engineering , science and mathematics, today announced the success of
its Global Optimization Toolbox in the academic , commercial and
research markets."
"The Global Optimization Toolbox has given me a new way to handle
the complex and difficult optimization problems in my operations
research projects," said Professor Mahmut Parlar, chair, Management
Science/Information Systems, DeGroote School of Business , McMaster
University, Canada.maplesoft.com/products/toolboxes or call
1-800-267-6583 ext 411 (US and Canada). Over two million users at thousands of
organizations benefit from advanced Maple technology.

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Congress Expresses Concern on Future of Computing Research Funding in US

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TUCSON, Ariz. BRO's
Dr. For more information: www.

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S. government agencies and departments, seeks to
influence relevant U.
Designed to work seamlessly with the core Maple product suite, these
high-performance products deploy best-of-breed technology to deliver
maximum benefit from the world's most powerful technical software
platform.

Breault Research Organization Sponsors Optics Award at UofA's Engineering Design Day

(BRO), the optical engineering firm, will sponsor an
engineering award and send technical staff to participate in the
University of Arizona 's Engineering Design Day, on April 28, 2005."
Dr.

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acm.S. Laurent
Bernardin, Maplesoft's Chief Scientist . For more information,
visit http://www.

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"And numerous reports, including the
President's Information Technology Advisory Committee, the Defense Science
Board, and CRA have detailed these challenges .C. The first
semester is spent researching and drafting a plan, with the second
semester dedicated to creating a prototype.

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Patterson, president of ACM and professor of
computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. "IT has played an
indispensable role in fostering economic growth in the US over the past 20
years. ACM hosts the computing industry's leading
Digital Library and Guide to Computing Literature, and serves its 80,000
global members and the computing profession with journals and magazines,
conferences, workshops, electronic forums, and its Career Resource Centre and
Professional Development Centre.
"The Global Optimization Toolbox meets the needs of industry
professionals by providing the tools they need to solve a wide range
of complex modeling problems, ranging from advanced engineering design
applications to econometrics and finance, management science, medical
research and biotechnology, and scientific modeling," said Dr.5, the standard among
interactive mathematical software; MapleNet, a comprehensive
mathematical infrastructure for the Web; and Maple T.

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In response to statements that research is receiving an adequate level of
funding, Patterson pointed to the increased number of IT proposals to NSF
which jumped from 2,000 to 6,500 in the last five years, forcing the agency to
leave many worthy proposals unfunded.,
Office of Public Policy , USACM responds to requests for information and
technical expertise from U.

Maplesoft's Global Optimization Toolbox Penetrates Key Markets; Powerful Solution Brings Industrial-Class Optimization to Academic Commercial and Research App

"Maple is a cornerstone for my daily research and
to have an easy-to -use, Maple-based toolbox for projects such as
non-convex optimization and objective functions is ideal. The Global
Optimization Toolbox is a very valuable resource for anyone who deals
with nonlinear optimization problems in operations research,
engineering, economics or other applied sciences. Its standards-compliant algorithms are
renowned for its speed, accuracy and reliability. Judges
include more than 50 industry experts from local organizations.

Computational geometry is in some sense the intersection of computer science and geometry, studying efficient algorithms for solving geometric problems.

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public in all matters of U. In addition to US-based organizations such as Fairchild
Semiconductor, Kentucky State University and Los Alamos National
Laboratory, the Global Optimization Toolbox is being used by
organizations in Japan, Korea, Germany, Italy and France, among
others.

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S. In fact, recent studies suggest that the remarkable growth the US
experienced between 1995 and 2000 was spurred by an increase in productivity
enabled almost completely by factors related to IT," said Patterson.

"The status
quo is simply unacceptable," he said.

About Maplesoft

Maplesoft is a world leader in mathematical and analytical
software.

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"In FY 1998, DARPA funding
constituted 30 percent of federal IT R+D spending, but in FY 2005, DARPA's
$143 million represents just 6 percent of the overall IT budget," he said. government policies on behalf of the computing
community and the public , and provides information to ACM on relevant U.A.

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ABOUT ACM
ACM (http://www.S. Its suite of products includes Maple 9.
According to Dr. BRO is a proud supporter of the University of
Arizona's engineering colleges and the pursuit of academic excellence
at the University of Arizona .

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"It does not adequately continue the nation's historic commitment
to longer-range, more basic research in computer science," he said."
A copy of the joint statement of the computer science community , submitted
for the hearing, may be found at http://www.S.
government activities. In addition,
Maplesoft leads the market with innovations that make the management
of technical knowledge - whether in industry, or in a classroom - more
effective and efficient.
This is the event's third year and includes more than 60 senior
design teams comprised of 300 students graduating in May.

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universities , leaving a significant gap in the federal research
portfolio that no other agency has yet stepped forward to fill," said
Patterson. Toolboxes target key application areas in engineering,
science and technical application development.
It's exciting to see engineering programs expand to include these
interdisciplinary exercises, which are more like the engineering
projects encountered in the workplace. BRO's Advanced Systems Analysis Program
(ASAP) is the leading program uniting geometrical and physical optics
with full 3D models of optical and mechanical systems. More than 20
years of continuous development allows ASAP to simulate the physics of
more optical systems than any other program available.

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Public Policy Committee (USACM) http://www. In engineering, constraints
may arise from technical issues.
Student teams are formed for the two-semester-long project. Turner, "It takes several students, each studying
a unique area of engineering, to put together a winning prototype .

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Supported by ACM's Washington, D.S."
"Maple's optimization add-on has permitted me to lock in on
optimal parameters in problems involving six parameters on a system
with three orders of magnitude for each dimension," said Ron Lenk,
systems applications engineering manager at Tyco Electronics and
author of Practical Design of Power Supplies. Mary Turner, technical sales manager, is participating as a judge
for the second year running.

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Chairman Boehlert noted that current federal funding is not properly
balanced. "But we run a grave risk in cutting
funding for fundamental IT research ," said Patterson. Turner will present the "BRO Best Overall Optics Award" to the
winning optics team .

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org/usacm/ . Maplesoft's
commercial customer base includes Boeing, Bosch, Canon and NASA.maplesoft . Also participating in "Engineering Design
Day" will be local K-12 students, including the MESA program for
underserved populations in math and science.breault.

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It's simply astonishing that
DARPA, once the mainstay for funding these kinds of challenges, is cutting
long-term computing research at universities.5, the standard among
interactive math software, enabling a wide range of professionals to
obtain the mathematically optimized solution to complex modeling
problems.

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In written testimony provided to the committee, DARPA Director Tony Tether
said that while DARPA's funding for computer science research has increased
slightly since FY 2001 to $583 million in FY 2004, its funding for computer
science research in universities had fallen by nearly half over the same
period -- from $214 million in FY 2001, to $123 million in FY 2004.
"Congress clearly pointed out that we face critical challenges for IT in
the 21st century," Patterson continued.acm.org/usacm serves as
the focal point for ACM's interaction with U. public policy
related to information technology .S. Released in June 2004, the Global Optimization
Toolbox extends the power of Maple(TM) 9.
Engineering Design Day is a unique event showcasing the work of
senior-level undergraduate students across the many engineering
disciplines within the University of Arizona's College of Engineering.