BEND, OR – August 19, 2008
Blue Reference, Inc. is delighted to announce the formation of the Inference Academic Affiliate Program. The goal of the program is to engender use of Inference by professors and their students for the purposes of reproducible research, virtual learning practices, publishing, and collaboration.
The Inference Academic Affiliate Program supports the academic community by providing Inference software to instructors and students at no charge. Affiliates have access to technical support, software updates, and Inference software development team members. As part of their ongoing participation in the program, Affiliates provide brief bi-monthly reports focused on identifying and developing key features and capabilities that make Inference a useful tool within their field of expertise.
Additionally, Affiliates explore the use of Inference’s dynamic documents as a teaching aid to help students learn, use, and apply scripting and data-analysis platforms such as MATLAB, R, and .NET. Inference integrates technical computing platforms with Microsoft Excel and Word, enabling instructors and students to assemble explanatory text, code, objects, and data within a single dynamic document. Dynamic documents are potentially powerful tools for enabling reproducible results, creating interactive lesson plans, publishing research.
Paul van Eikeren, CEO and co-founder of Blue Reference, says, “We are gratified to see an enthusiastic response from the academic community. We have tripled the projected number of instructors and students committed to using Inference in their fall 2008-2009 courses. We very much look forward to working with our Academic Affiliates; discovering their key needs and iteratively adapting Inference to suit them.”
For more details, see our Academic Affiliate Program page, or email us for more information.
Blue Reference was founded in 2006 by Paul and Josh van Eikeren, entrepreneurs who also founded IntelliChem, Inc. IntelliChem pioneered the use of Electronic Laboratory Notebooks for R&D in the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies. Symyx Technologies, Inc., a Nasdaq listed company, acquired IntelliChem in 2004.
Blue Reference developed the Inference software platform in an effort sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Inference enables intuitive and efficient collaboration, design, and testing in process driven industries and applications. The fully integrated technical computing environments, tools and services that make up the Inference software solution are based on the latest technology platforms and advanced data-analysis methods.
For more information about Blue Reference, please contact ben.hinchliffe@bluereference.com, or visit http://www.InferenceforQbD.com or http://www.BlueReference.com.