Visual Numerics is pleased to offer the Knowledge in Motion™ education program for its IMSL® Library and PV-WAVE® customers. This program opens up a new learning environment for professors and students. It provides the ability to build powerful analytic applications for collaboration and sharing across organizations and improve students' understanding of mathematical and statistical concepts through the use of the IMSL Libraries. With PV-WAVE they can visually analyze their data with a variety of techniques in order to fully understand the significance of the results. Many professors of accredited universities and colleges are finding great success by using the products as part of their course offerings. Below are links to some of our Knowledge in Motion member web sites, demonstrating how they have incorporated our products into their curriculum or the course in which they plan on utilizing the software. Apply to become a member of the Knowledge in Motion Program >> Dr. Gary R. Bertoline Professor of Computer Graphics Technology, College of Technology Associate Vice President for Information Technology Director of the Envision Center for Data Perceptualization http://www.itap.purdue.edu/envision/ Purdue University http://www2.tech.purdue.edu/cgt/Facstaff/grbertol/index.html Dr. Bertoline’s research interests are in the area of virtual reality and measuring and improving spatial cognition in humans. He has authored numerous papers on computer graphics, visualization research, and computer aided design and presented papers worldwide at various professional conferences. Dr. Bertoline has authored and co-authored eight books covering areas such as computer aided design and engineering design graphics. He is currently an engineering and technical graphics series advisor for McGraw Hill Publishing Company and also serves on the review boards for the Journal for Geometry and Graphics and Journal of Terrestrial Observation. In addition to Dr. Bertoline’s leadership roles at Purdue, he is also the chairman of the SC|05 Education Programs Committee. He received a Ph.D. degree in technology from The Ohio State University in 1987, MEd from Miami University, and BS degree from Northern Michigan University. Prior to joining the faculty at Purdue, he served three years as a faculty member in the College of Engineering and Department of Engineering Graphics at The Ohio State University. He has received national and international recognition through many awards such as: the Laureate Citation from Epsilon Pi Tau, the international honorary for professions in technology; Frank Oppenheimer Award (three times); and Steven M. Slaby International Award for Outstanding Contributions to Graphics Education. Dr. Bertoline plans to use PV-WAVE® in a course on Computer Graphics Technology, CGT 511. This course emphasizes the study of visual science and the significance of computer graphics as a communications medium.   Dr. Gary McClelland Dept. of Psychology University of Colorado http://psych.colorado.edu/~mcclella/ Dr. McClelland received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1974. His research interests include: Judgement and decision making; Experimental economics; Statistics and data analysis; and Mathematical psychology just to name a few. He is the director of the Honors Program in Psychology and a Faculty Fellow for the Institute of Cognitive Science. Dr. McClelland has created a series of interactive applets that illustrate a variety of statistical principles. The applets rely on JMSL mathematics and statistics classes for the underlying computations and JMSL charting classes for the visual component. The applets can be found at http://www.bolderstats.com/jmsl/doc/ and were developed as part of the Knowledge in Motion Education program. They will be used as instructional aids in statistics courses taught by Dr. McClelland. Statistical applets using JMSL functions: http://www.bolderstats.com/jmsl/doc/ Dr. Ofodike Ezekoye Associate Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering The University of Texas at Austin http://www.me.utexas.edu/~ezekoye/ Dr. Ezekoye's areas of expertise include: Heat Transfer in Reacting Flows Particle-gas Fluid Mechanics Fire and Combustion Modeling Dr. Ezekoye works in several areas of combustion research including fire modeling, engine modeling and fundamental flame processes. Dr. Ezekoye is a faculty member of the Thermal/Fluid Systems program of the Mechanical Engineering Department. He served on the College of Engineering faculty in 1993. Dr. Ezekoye has published more than 70 technical articles and reports, and has authored or edited two books. He received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 1997. Dr. Ezekoye plans to incorporate the JMSL Numerical Library into courses relating to: Heat Transfer Fundamentals of Combustion Science Science of fire/Heat transfer: http://www.me.utexas.edu/~ezekoye/rsch.dir/firesite/index.html Dr. M. Asghar Bhatti Civil and Environmental Engineering Department University of Iowa http://www.engineering.uiowa.edu/faculty-staff/profile-directory/cee/bhatti_m.html Dr. Bhatti joined the College of Engineering at the University of Iowa in 1980 after receiving a Ph.D. in Structural Engineering and Structural Mechanics from the University of California-Berkeley. His areas of expertise include: Computer-aided design Optimal design Finite element techniques Structural dynamics Earthquake engineering Dr. Bhatti's current research interests are: Optimization based computer-aided design Response analysis of linear and nonlinear systems Earthquake engineering. Dr. Bhatti plans to incorporate the JMSL Numerical Library into courses relating to Finite Element Analysis. Finite element course: http://www.cee.engineering.uiowa.edu/structures/structuregradreq.aspx Dr. Antonio Flores Tlacuahuac Professor Chemical Engineering Department Universidad Iberoamericana http://200.13.98.241/~antonio Dr. Flores Tlacuahuac received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering (chemical process control) from the University of London (Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) UK. He joined Universidad Iberoamericana in 1995. His research activities focus on applied mathematics in the areas of nonlinear dynamics, optimal control and model predictive control. Control of Chemical Processes: http://200.13.98.241/%7Eantonio/cursos/control/control.html Dr. Eliezer Prisman Professor of Finance and Director of the Financial Engineering Program Schulich School of Business at York University, and associate editor of Management Science Dr. Prisman's research interests include methodological and commercial use of symbolic and numerical computation for financial models; investment; market imperfection, tax effects in the derivative and fixed income markets; arbitrage models; fixed income securities term structure estimation and immunization. He has authored numerous papers on these topics and information on the papers can be found at http://www.yorku.ca/eprisman. Dr. Prisman is in the process of writing a second book on derivative securities using the JMSL Library for his computational and charting requirements. He also incorporates the use of the JMSL Library into the course Derivative Securities and plans to also incorporate it in the course Theory of Portfolio Management. Dr. Philip H. K. Yu Associate professor in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science University of Hong Kong Dr. Yu teaches courses in Data Mining and Data Mining Techniques. His research interests include topics such as: data mining; risk management; environmental statistics just to name a few and he has had over twenty papers published covering a wide range of statistical topics. The most recent paper is "SARS Case-Fatality Rates." Dr. Yu plans to use the JMSL Library in the creation of a risk management toolbox for a course entitled "The Statistics of Investment Risk". Dr. Steve Turley Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Associate Dean for First-Year Experience Brigham Young University Dr. Turley's current research interests include experimental and computational studies of Extreme Ultraviolet Optics. Dr. Turley has over 40 publications in the areas of extreme ultraviolet optics and sources, space physics, solar physics, computational electromagnetics, muon catalyzed fusion,electric spacecraft propulsion, nuclear physics, lasers, atomic physics, nonlinear optics, and laser annealing. Dr. Turley plans to use the JMSL Library in a variety of upper level undergraduate and graduate level Physics research courses to teach students how to analyze and model data through the use of Java applications. Dr. Gerald Hanweck Professor of Finance for the School of Management George Mason University Dr. Hanweck teaches courses in Financial Risk Management and Financial Markets. His research interests include topics such as: Financial institutions and markets performance Financial markets and their relation to Public Policy Economic stabilization and monetary policy Economies of scale and scope and mergers in the financial service industries In addition to his position as Professor of Finance, Dr. Hanweck is also a Visiting Scholar in the Division of Insurance and Research of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). His focus at the FDIC is on the use of market information in bank risk management strategies, for use in establishing federal deposit insurance pricing, and the better identification of banks in financial distress. He has also served as a consultant to government agencies and as an expert witness in litigation involving financial institutions and government agencies. Prior to joining the faculty at George Mason in 1986, Dr. Hanweck served as an economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in the Division of Research and Statistics. He received a B.A. in Economics from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Economics from Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Hanweck plans to use the JMSL Library in the development of interactive software for M.B.A. courses in financial risk management as well as various research projects. Mr. Vezen Wu Faculty Member, Information Technology Programs School of Continuing Education Columbia University Mr. Wu's areas of expertise include: JavaServer Pages (JSP) technology as applied to user-interfaces for database-driven applications Medical software research Financial time series analysis In addition to his classroom duties, Mr. Wu is leading a team of researchers on a software development project known as MedfoLink, an integrated technology that uses medical language processing and the Unified Medical Language SystemR (UMLSR) to enable a computer to accurately record and interpret patient records. Benefits of this system include security to ensure patient privacy, consolidated patient histories, on-demand access to patient records, and safeguards against clerical errors. The applications range from enhanced individual patient care to public health concerns of epidemic proportions like bioterrorism. Mr. Wu graduated summa cum laude from New York University and studied information technology at Columbia University. His scientific honors include the Westinghouse Science Talent Search award for pharmaceutical research, and research support from the National Institutes of Health. Mr. Wu plans to use the JMSL Library in the classroom as well as many computational and statistical analysis functions in support of the MedfoLink application. University of Alabama-Birmingham Application: HDBStat! - High Dimension Biology Statistical Analysis The Department of Biostatics within the School of Public Health has developed a new microarray technology application, HDBStat!. HDBStat! is designed for the statistical analysis of microarray data using methods that take into account non-normal data and small sample sizes, as well as make use of mixture models. The goal is to help researchers make valid inferences and estimates. The HDBStat! team of developers and researchers is lead by Dr. David Allison, Professor of Biostatistics and Head of the Section on Statistical Genetics. More information on HDBStat!, including registration to obtain a copy, can be found at http://www.ssg.uab.edu/hdbstat/index.html. To learn more about the use of the JMSL Library within HDBStat! Please read the success story http://www.vni.com/successes/uabGen.php.