Who are we?
Nash Information Services Inc. is a private
Canadian corporation, founded in 1976 and incorporated in 1982,
providing information, information management and calculation services
to business, government and industry. The company also continues its
original activity as a publisher of specialty materials. The company's
principals are authors of a number of technical books and articles.
Dr. John C. Nash, President of Nash Information
Services Inc., obtained his B.Sc. from the University of Calgary (in
Chemistry) and his doctorate in Mathematics from Oxford. He was in
charge
of a statistical analysis unit for Agriculture Canada until 1980, and
is
now Full Professor in the Faculty of Administration of the University
of
Ottawa. Dr. Nash is the author of Compact numerical methods for
computers (Bristol: Adam Hilger and
New York: American Institute of Physics, 1979 and Second Edition with
software diskette, 1990), Effective scientific problem solving with
small computers (Virginia: Reston, 1984) Nonlinear parameter
estimation: an integrated system in BASIC (New York: Dekker, 1987,
co-authored with Mary Walker-Smith), Scientific
Computing with PCs (Miller Freeman Inc.: San Mateo, 1998, co-authored
with Mary Nash) and Practical
Forecasting for Managers (Arnold: London, 2001, co-authored
with Mary Nash). His
research and popular writings cover a wide range of topics in
computers,
mathematics and information science. He has been mathematics columnist
for Interface Age and the Scientific Computing editor for Byte
magazine. An Associate Editor of The American Statistician, he was
Editor and
Managing Editor of SSC Liaison for the Statistical Society of Canada
from
1991 to 1994. He is a frequent invited speaker on topics related to
statistical computing, microcomputer applications, and risk management.
At the University of Ottawa, he teaches statistics for management,
forecasting techniques and managing technological risk, as well as
leading
an number of professional development courses. He is also involved in a
number of open-source software projects including TellTable (www.telltable.com and telltable-s.sf.net), Etutor
(etutor.sf.net) and the testing
effort of the Gnumeric project (www.gnome.org/gnumeric).
Dr.
Nash is fluent in
French. There is a complete résumé
and publications list for Dr. Nash
on this system.
Mary M. Nash
obtained her B.Sc. (Chemistry) from the
University of Calgary. Her Bachelor of Library Sciences (B.L.S.) from
the
University of Alberta was supported by a National Research Council of
Canada Library Science Scholarship. As the Nancy Stirling Lambert
Scholar
she earned a Master's in Librarianship from the University of Wales
(UK). She has wide-ranging experience gained over more than twenty-five
years in the
library, publishing and information provider and management industries.
Her specialties involve the design and use of databases and information
systems (both manual and computerized). Ms. Nash is the author of Books
on Demand (Oxford: Oxford Microform Publications, 1976), co-author
of book Scientific Computing with PCs and Practical Forecasting for Managers
(see above) and a number of
technical and popular papers. There is a complete
résumé and publications
list
for Mary Nash on this system.
In 1976 Ms. Nash founded Nash Information Services. As a consultant,
she
has carried out contracts in the areas of information systems analysis
and
product development, records management, writing and editing and
training
and teaching. She has a strong familiarity with many online information
retrieval services and has assisted clients in the implementation of a
variety of automated library management systems. Example contracts are
listed on this system. Ms. Nash has also maintained an active
involvement in information management professional societies and four
years she was the Canadian correspondent for Online Review.
Ms. Nash uses many types of computer systems. She has installed
Internet access tools and
prepared documents in various formats for presentation or distribution,
of which this document is an
example. Mary Nash has taught courses and led industrial and government
training seminars on various topics. She is a frequent invited lecturer
and conference speaker. In addition to English, she has a working
knowledge of French, Dutch and German.
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