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U.S. Navy SEAL Leap Frogs parachute team drop in on Delaware Military Academy annual graduation.
The Delaware Military Academy is the only Navy charter school in the country. Quantum Leap Innovations has been the sponsor of the Delaware Military Academy Underwater Unmanned (robotic) Vehicle team this past year (more details in our news of November 2007.)

To read the Navy SEAL Leap Frogs story in Delaware OnLine please click here: http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080531/NEWS/805310326.

LEGO Robotics Team wins Judges Award and Advances to Compete at the First State First Lego League (FLL) Championship Tournament!
The Quantum Leapers, as they are known, successfully competed in the First State FLL Qualifier on Saturday, January 5th at Patton Middle School in Kennett Square, PA. The team returned home with the prestigious Judges' Award. One of the referees mentioned the team exhibited, "Gracious professionalism." That says a lot about students who range in age from 9 to 14.

The team is preparing to compete in the First State FLL Championship Tournament to be held at the University of Delaware, Bob Carpenter Center on Saturday, January 19th. . The tournament will host 54 teams from schools across the local region. For more information regarding the tournament visit: http://www.firstlegoleague.org/calendar.aspx?pid=210&action=showevent&eventid=1426. To see the Quantum Leapers preparing for their FLL competitions, click here: Lego Robotics Team 390 Story.

Dr. Ganesh Vaidynathan promoted to Vice President & Chief Scientist of Quantum Leap Innovations.

NOVEMBER 9, 2007
Quantum Leap paper wins the Architecture Track Award in the
GridWise Architecture Council's 2007 Grid-Interop Forum.

The Grid-Interop forum is a group dedicated to promoting Electric System Interoperability, which will result in more efficient use of existing power sources, and in enabling the introduction of new generation and control technologies. The complete proceedings are available at: Grid-Interop Forum 2007 Proceedings. The paper is available at: Rational Agents for Decentralized Environments.

NOVEMBER 2007
Quantum Leap Innovations adopts the Delaware Military Academy Underwater Robotic Team.

Quantum Leap Innovations is assisting the Delaware Military Academy (DMA)'s Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) student team, led by Physics teacher John Lunsford, as it prepares for the Mid-Atlantic Regional Marine Advanced Technology Education Center's (MATE) ROV Competition. QLI is supporting the DMA's ROV team by demonstrating state-of-the-art robotic simulation techniques, participating in design reviews, being available for technical consulation, and donating resources to the team. QLI's Joseph Elad, Jijun Wang, Apperson Johnson, and Albert Boehmler have all been involved in this effort.

The MATE 2008 competition challenges student teams to design and build ROVs to uncover the mysteries of Earth’s mid-ocean ridges. The mission scenario focuses on deep-sea hydrothermal vents and the biology, chemistry, and geology that drive these environments. More details are available here.

The Delaware Military Academy creates a well-rounded learning experience that develops honor, discipline and integrity. Students cultivate strength of character, individual excellence, and responsible leadership. Upon graduation, students are prepared to lead lives of academic, personal and professional achievement.

MAY 2, 2007
Quantum Leap Sponsors FIRST LEGO League Team
Quantum Leap Innovations has registered a team to participate in FIRST LEGO League's 2007 Challenge, Power Puzzle: "Energy Resources - Meeting the Global Demand." QLI's Gary Holness will be coaching four to ten middle school students from private, parochial and public schools in and around the Newark, DE area. Josephine Fish will be coordinating the meetings and documenting the team's progress.

FIRST LEGO League is an exciting and fun international robotics program the ignites an enthusiasm for discovery, science and technology in kids age 9 to 14. For more information on FIRST LEGO League and the 2007 Challenge, Power Puzzle, check out: http://www.firstlegoleague.org/default.aspx?pid=70

APRIL 18, 2007
Joseph Elad, CEO, elected as a trustee of the the University of Delaware Research Foundation (UDRF). UDRF is a private corporation, chartered in 1955 to support research at the university. UDRF has an endowment that is used to provide research funds to early career, untenured, tenure-track science and engineering faculty to help them in the early phases of their research careers.

UDRF: http://www.udel.edu/research/about/udrf.html

JANUARY 27, 2007

On November 8, 2006 five third grade Jr. Lego League students from St. Catherine of Siena School visited Quantum Leap along with their parents and teacher/coach. As the group walked back to the cafeteria, the children were mesmerized with the leaping-frog art on display throughout the building.

Dr. Ganesh Vaidyanathan and Gary Holness from our staff took on the daunting task of explaining Nanotechnology using an example of mixing things like chocolate milk. Quantum Leap must have left a great impression on these kids, because this past Saturday, January 27, three of those Jr. Lego Leaguers competed at the University of Delaware. Their team won 'Most Innovative Design' with their tiny frogs with moving mouths!

DECEMBER 2006
Quantum Leap welcomes Dr. Michael J. Ginzberg as Board Observer and Advisor to the Management Team of Quantum Leap Innovations.

Dr. Ginzberg is Chaplin Tyler Professor of Business at the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, University of Delaware. From 2000-2006, Dr. Ginzberg served as Dean of the Lerner College. Prior to coming to the University of Delaware, he served on the business faculties of Case Western Reserve University, New York University and Columbia University. He has taught at SDA Bocconi in Milan, Italy, the International Management Center in Budapest, Hungary and the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus Universiteit in the Netherlands. He received the Ph.D. in Management from the Alfred P. Sloan School of Management at MIT.

Dr. Ginzberg’s research has focused on the management and use of information technology in organizations and the management of technical professionals. His current research interests concern creating business value through investments in information technology and the impact of technology on corporate governance. He has published over 45 articles and chapters and written or edited a half dozen books and monographs in the fields of management and information systems.

Dr. Ginzberg has held leadership positions in national and international professional and academic organizations, including the International Conference on Information Systems, the Association for Information Systems, and the Society for Information Management. He has served on the Board of Trustees of the International Management Center, Budapest, Hungary, the Board of Directors of Beta Alpha Psi, the international honorary society for financial information professionals, and as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Sarajevo Graduate School of Business in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina. He has also served on the Advisory Board of Environmental Consulting International, and as Consultant to the Board of Directors of Quaker City Motor Parts Co. He currently serves on the Preliminary Review Committee of the Delaware Board on Professional Responsibility and on the Business Leader Hall of Fame Committee of Junior Achievement of Delaware.

NOVEMBER 7, 2006
Quantum Leap’s work presented at the November 7th meeting of The Association of Medical Service Corps Officers of the Navy (AMSCON)
At the AMSCON meeting in San Antonio (TX) yesterday the Office of Naval Research (CDR Russell Shilling PhD, USN, MSC) sponsored the presentation of QLHS work on 'Development and Implementation of the DoDIM (DoD Influenza Model) for Pandemic Planning'. CDR Shilling and Dr Stephen Prior co-authored the presentation that described ongoing work that QLHS is performing for ONR.

The presentation can be viewed at: AMSCON.pdf

NOVEMBER 5-8, 2006
Quantum Leap Innovations presents at INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 5-8, 2006, Pittsburgh, PA

■Condition Monitoring Using Bayesian Networks, Faulkner, E. and Lund, T. INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 5-8, 2006, Pittsburgh, PA
■The Adaptive Optimization Engine, Cowart, J. and Faulkner, E. INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 5-8, 2006, Pittsburgh, PA

OCTOBER 12, 2006
Quantum Leap Innovations recognized in the September 2006 issue of Uptime Magazine, a magazine for the Condition Monitoring and Predictive Maintenance community. Quantum Leap's partner, the DEI Group, was interviewed about the future of Predictive Maintenance and Quantum Leap is recognized as the supplier of the enabling Bayesian Belief Net technology to DEI on page 10 of the issue / page 6 of the attached article.

PDF of article: UPTIME_Future_PM.pdf

OCTOBER 2, 2006
Quantum Leap Innovations opens our permanent offices in Arlington,
Virginia, conveniently located just outside of Washington DC, one block
from the Ballston Metro Center.

The Ellipse at Ballston
4350 North Fairfax Drive, Suite 440
Arlington, Virginia 22203.

AUGUST 15, 2006
Quantum Leap's Intelligent Portal Engine Awarded a US Patent
Quantum Leap has been awarded a US patent for the Intelligent Portal Engine (IPE), a system and method for providing an intelligent, multimodal interface to multifaceted applications. The IPE exploits agent-based distributed processing, distributed model construction, user, domain and session modeling, and multilevel discourse modeling to provide a rational intermediary between the user and one or more applications or services. The IPE also offers a comprehensible, reviewable and extensible interface that supports natural language dialog over a much wider domain of discourse than has previously been afforded. The system is particularly well suited to facilitating user interaction to an expanding universe of services, such as emerging web applications.

Full Patent: US 7,0920,928 Elad et al.

MAY 18, 2006
Quantum Leap Awarded SBIR Phase II

Quantum Leap Innovations has been awarded a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the United States Air Force. This is a 2 year, $750,000 contract to expand Phase I results. Special congratulations to Srikanth V. Kallurkar, the Principal Investigator.

The project, AIMS: Agent-based Information Management System, addresses the determination of information provenance in order to establish trust about sources of information and its subsequent quality is an important aspect of information management. The volume of digital information and the scale of its growth, both in terms of proliferation of sources as well as the size of digital information, presents a myriad of problems in their management. Validity and quality assessment of information allow the participants in information systems to associate confidence levels with the operations that utilize or are influenced by the information.

The AIMS project will develop enabling technologies for managing and exploiting provenance to facilitate the information source trust and quality assessment of information in the Joint Battlespace Infosphere (JBI) at minimal cost as well as complete provenance at corresponding processing and time-related costs. We propose the novel concept of information chromosomes that associates approximate provenance in specific bits associated with the information. Provenance maintenance and look-up services are provided by corresponding agents in a network-centric architecture. We will also develop evaluation metrics for in-depth analysis of effectiveness and efficiency of provenance obtained through the AIMS architecture.

MARCH 22, 2006
Quantum Leap Innovation's home, the Delaware Technology Park (DTP) was invited to join as a National Affiliate the President's Council on Competitiveness and Mike Bowman, who is on Quantum Leap's Board of Directors, was invited to join the President's National Innovation Initiative. Quite an achievement for DTP and its tenants. As part of this effort, a DTP CEOs' Council will be created and Quantum Leap was invited to be among the five founding members of that council.

NOVEMBER 13-16, 2005
Quantum Leap Presents at INFORMS Annual Meeting 2005

Portfolio Construction using Adaptive Optimization - Eli Faulkner
Tuesday Nov 15, 16:30 - 18:00
Conference website: http://www.informs.org/Conf/NO2005/
Session information: https://informs.emeetingsonline.com/emeetings/formbuilder/clustersessiondtl.asp?
csnno=4097&mmnno=141&ppnno=13657

NOVEMBER 9, 2005
Delaware Technology Park Named Outstanding Research Park of the Year 2005

Association of University Research Parks http://www.aurp.net
http://www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/2006/nov/techpark110805.html

SEPTEMBER 29, 2005
Next Great City: Our Neighbor Philadelphia
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/traveler/features/philly0510/philly3.html

JULY 25, 2005
Quantum Leap Innovations Sponsors AAMAS-05
Utrecht University, The Netherlands, 25 - 29 July 2005
The AAMAS conference series was initiated in 2002 as a merger of three highly successful related events: AGENTS (International Conference on Autonomous Agents) , ICMAS (International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems), and ATAL (International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages.) The aim of the joint conference is to provide a single, high-profile, internationally renowned forum for research in the theory and practice of autonomous agents and multiagent systems.

http://www.cs.uu.nl/events/aamas2005/main.php#sponsors05

JULY 22, 2005
Quantum Leap Presents at HCI International 2005
Las Vegas, Nevada, July 22-27 2005
HCI International provides a forum for the dissemination and exchange of scientific information on theoretical, generic, and applied areas of HCI, usability, internationalization, virtual reality, universal access and cognitive ergonomics.

HCI 2005 Conference Website: http://www.hci-international.org/index.php?module=conference&CF_op=view&CF_id=4

HCI 2005 Final Program Link: http://www.hci-international.org/index.php?module=conference&CF_op=download&CF_fid=8

■Adapting Single-User Applications to Groupware – An Example from Industry
Thomas Roper, Quantum Leap Innovations, United States; Joseph McNamara, Quantum Leap Innovations, United States
■Shared Cognition and Resource Coordination in Distributed Decision-Making Teams
Rita Vick, Quantum Leap Interactive, Inc., United States; Joseph McNamara, Quantum Leap Innovations, United States

JULY 18, 2005
Quantum Leap Innovations Welcomes Ganesh Vaidyanathan, PhD

Ganesh Vaidyanathan joins Quantum Leap as the Director of the Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining Center of Excellence.

Formerly a Senior Research Associate with DuPont, Ganesh brings with him significant experience in delivering innovative solutions to solve complex business problems using technology, data and multi-disciplinary concepts. He is the inventor of the proprietary InfoEvolve™ suite of data mining tools based on the marriage of information theory with genetic algorithms and has developed a significant patent estate around data mining, pattern discovery and adaptive image analysis, with 16 patents awarded to date.

Following his time at DuPont, Ganesh was the Founder & President of Indus Capital Management LLC, which provides predictive modeling and decision making technology to the hedge fund industry.

Ganesh earned his PhD in Physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his BA in Physics from Princeton University.

JULY 13, 2005
UD Daily Article - Counter-terrorism software in development
http://www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/2005/mar/quantum071305.html

JUNE 8, 2005
Josephine M. Fish, Administrative Coordinator for Quantum Leap, received the Molly Pitcher Award from the United States Field Artillery Association. The Artillery Order of Molly Pitcher recognizes individuals who have voluntarily contributed in a significant way to the improvement of the Field Artillery Community. The award was presented to Josephine and her husband by the Adjutant General of the State of Delaware.
http://sill-www.army.mil/pao/pamolly.htm
http://www.usfaa.com/awards/mollypitcher/index.htm

APRIL 8, 2005
Delaware Delegation Announces Quantum Leap Innovations to Receive Air Force Research Grant to Advance Intelligence Technology

JANUARY 28, 2005
Joseph Elad, CEO, One of the Founding Members of the Delaware Entrepreneurial Action Group

The 23-member group was formed to continue the work that began last year at the Wilmington Regional Competitiveness Summit. The Council on Competitiveness Entrepreneurial Action Group is charged with creating a strategy to address key regional economic development issues critical to building a strong-innovation driven economy. Key areas that will be focused on include creating a stronger linkage between higher education and the business community and fostering a greater entrepreneurial environment in Delaware.

MARCH 15, 2004
Quantum Leap CEO to speak about Intelligent Software and Innovation at CSC's Executive Technology Forum

Joseph Elad is scheduled to present at CSC's Executive Technology Forum - Achieving Business Results Through Technology Innovation. One of the main subjects on the agenda takes a look at 'New Innovations on the Horizon' and it is in this context that, Joseph will be discussing how Quantum Leap applies Intelligent Software to National Security and Beyond. The event will take place on April 13-14, 2004 in Falls Church, VA.

NOVEMBER 2003
Profiting from the BioShield
Quantum Leap Innovations highlighted in the following article from the November 2003 issue of Bio-IT World, p. 46-50.
http://www.bio-itworld.com/archive/111403/bioshed.html

OCTOBER 2, 2002
Quantum Leap Wins Prestigious SBIR Tibbetts Award
Quantum Leap was awarded a 2002 Tibbetts Award
for its performance on an Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
contract . These prestigious National awards are given annually to those small
businesses that exemplify the very best in SBIR achievement.

Out of thousands of SBIR participants, only sixty-nine companies received the
award this year. Quantum Leap is the only Delaware recipient.

Under the SBIR contract, Quantum Leap developed an intelligent scheduling
solution that is capable of solving scheduling problems in any domain. Quantum
Leap demonstrated this flexibility by using the software to optimize both the
scheduling of space launch operations for the Air Force’s Space and Missile
command, and communication contacts between hundreds of satellites and
15 fixed, ground-based antennae. The software solved each problem in less
than 40% of the time standard set by the Air Force.

The award is named after Roland Tibbetts - the father of the SBIR program. The SBIR program accounts for more than $1 billion per year in federal research and development funds and is coordinated by the Small Business Administration's Office of Technology, in cooperation with 10 federal agencies. The Tibbetts Award is the SBA's highest national recognition for innovative technology.

The list of 2002 Tibbetts Award winners can be viewed at: http://www.zyn.com/tibbetts/pastwin02.htm

More information about the Tibbets Award can be found at:http://www.zyn.com/tibbetts/index.html

APRIL 15, 2002
Quantum Leap welcomes Franklin T. Abbott.
Frank will serve as the company's Controller and Contract Administration Manager. Formerly with DuPont, he brings with him over 30 years of experience managing major business support functions including contract administration, accounting, purchasing, shipping and receiving, inventory control and information technology. Frank led the transition of DuPont's Advanced Materials Systems (AMS) business unit through two changes in ownership with no interruption in services. Highlights of Frank's career include: developing education, orientation and training programs; conducting reviews of audits; and creating a corporate competency center to facilitate acquisition and management of government contracts. Frank left his position as Controller of Cytec Fiberite (previously DuPont's AMS) to serve as Vice President and CFO of IMG Americas, Inc., where he directed the successful implementation of SAP in the US subsidiary. He then went on to serve as Senior Vice President of The Guardian Services Group, Ltd. before joining Quantum Leap.

Frank earned his Master of Commerce, Accounting & Industrial Management from the University of Richmond, VA. He is a Founding Member of the Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP) and a member of the National Contract Management Association (NCMA).

Quantum Leap Voted One of the Best Places to Work
April 2001 -- Quantum Leap was voted one of the best places to work by Delaware Today Magazine.

Joseph Elad Keynote Speaker at Annual Order of Engineer Ceremony
February 19, 2001 -- Joseph Elad, CEO & Co-Founder, was the keynote speaker at the University of Delaware's College of Engineering Annual Order of Engineer. Joseph earned his MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Delaware before entering into the field of Computer Science.

Move to the Delaware Technology Park
September 2000 -- Quantum Leap Innovations, Inc. moved to our offices at the Delaware Technology Park, which is located in Newark, DE, adjacent to the University of Delaware's main campus. We are proud of our innovative office design and glad to be in such a great location.

Quantum Leap Sponsors Student Awards
Quantum Leap Innovations annually sponsors two awards within the University of Delaware Computer and Information Sciences department. The first award honors a Graduate student for his or her Excellence in Artificial Intelligence. The second award honors a Senior Undergraduate for Outstanding Achievement in Computer & Information Sciences. The ceremony is held each May as part of the University's Honor's Day events. There are two plaques in the Department office to commemorate these awards. http://www.udel.edu/PR/UpDate/97/32/19.html

Quantum Leap Awarded Grant from the United States Air Force
Quantum Leap Innovations, Inc. was awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the United States Air Force (USAF) in February 2000. This grant could provide us with more than $1.5 million in funding for the creation of a three-layer hybrid system composed of: (1) a mutli-agent hierarchical planning/scheduling system, (2) a flexible resource scheduling model, and (3) a hybrid numeric/heuristic optimization engine. The system we propose to create will provide an effective solution to the USAF's current ground and space resources scheduling problem, but it will also be adaptive enough to apply to other scheduling and optimization problems.

Quantum Leap featured in Business Week
http://www.businessweek.com/1998/20/b3578135.htm

Quantum Leap Awarded US Patent for Adaptive Optimization
A system and method for representing and solving problems allows a user to enter objects and attributes, and to form a table of at least two dimensions having object-attribute pairs. An object hierarchy is then implemented using the entered objects. A score is maintained reflecting how closely the constraints of a particular problem are to being satisfied and the degree of progress in the direction of stated objectives of the problem.

Full Patent: 5,428,712

Quantum Leap Awarded US Patent for Adaptive Optimization

A system and method for representing and solving numeric and symbolic problems which allows a user to enter objects and attributes, and to form a table of at least two dimensions having object-attributes pairs. An object hierarchy is then implemented using the entered objects. The system allows the user to enter constructs to represent relationships among the object-attribute pairs, and also to enter objectives and constraints for the problem. The system allows the user to solve the problem manually or automatically by the system. A score is maintained reflecting how closely the constraints of a problem are to being satisfied and the degree of progress in the direction of the stated objectives of the problem. The system allows representation of hybrid numerical and symbolic problems, and provides solutions to linear or non-linear, discrete or continuous, and feasible or non-feasible constraint satisfaction and optimization problems.

Full Patent: 5,195,172