Visual Numerics® Creates Technology Exchange Council to Foster Innovation

Cooperative Effort Among Industry, Higher Education and Research Centers to Focus on Creating Innovative Tools for Mathematics, Statistics and Visualization

Seattle, WA – SC|05, BOOTH #2006 – November 15, 2005 – Visual Numerics, Inc., celebrating 35 years of producing leading numerical analysis and visualization software, today announced the formation of a Technology Exchange Council. Chaired by Visual Numerics CEO Phil Fraher, the Technology Exchange Council brings together experts in mathematics, statistics, and visualization in a cooperative effort among industry, higher education, and research centers to foster innovation. The Council will provide insight into the evolution of Visual Numerics' product roadmap, ensuring that the company's efforts are aligned with industry trends, and that products will meet the real-world needs of students, researchers, and developers.

Among the inaugural members of the Technology Exchange Council are Dr. Thomas B. Kepler, professor of computational biology, Duke University; Dr. Gary R. Bertoline, professor of computer graphics technology, Purdue University; Dr. Eliezer Prisman, professor of finance, York University; Dr. Gerald Hanweck, professor of finance, George Mason University; and Dr. Gary McClelland, professor of psychology, University of Colorado, Boulder.

"The Technology Exchange Council represents a deep level of cooperation between industry and researchers and academics in some of today's most complex and far-reaching technical fields such as financial engineering, computational biology, and computer graphics," said Phil Fraher, president and CEO of Visual Numerics. "The ideas and insights that come from the Council will help us develop innovative products that will help the researchers and developers of tomorrow reshape the world we live in."

"The Visual Numerics Technology Exchange Council is an important vehicle for the exchange of information between industry and academia, and will further the goals of both," said Dr. Gary Bertoline, director of the Envision Center for Data Perceptualization at Purdue University. "The effort will reward university researchers and students by arming them with tools that will better prepare them for their careers and support the pioneering work of the future."

About Visual Numerics

Visual Numerics® has provided technical software solutions for numerical analysis and visualization for more than three decades.  The company's software products help users understand complex data from a variety of sources and build business-critical applications. Visual Numerics offers two product lines: the IMSL Numerical Libraries for powerful mathematical and statistical analysis and the PV-WAVE® visual data analysis development environment.  Visual Numerics also offers customized professional services for applications that involve mathematical, statistical, or visual data analysis to meet today's business analytical needs.

Major corporations, academic institutions, and research laboratories worldwide use Visual Numerics' software tools, including such high profile companies as: Bear, Stearns & Company; Barclays Global Investors; Priceline.com; Humana; Sandia National Laboratories; and Boeing Company.  This large and diverse customer base is supported through a direct sales force, wholly owned international subsidiaries, and international distributors.  For more information about Visual Numerics, please visit www.vni.com.

Trademark Statement:

Visual Numerics and PV-WAVE are registered trademarks of Visual Numerics, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. IMSL, JMSL, JWAVE, TS-WAVE and Knowledge in Motion are trademarks of Visual Numerics, Inc. All other company, product or brand names are the property of their respective owners.