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Jeffrey Sax is founder and CEO of Extreme Optimization in
Toronto, Canada. He loves challenges, especially when it comes to making code
run fast, and finding simplicity and elegance in what looks like complicated
chaos.
He has been writing software for over 20 years. He holds masters
degrees in software engineering and theoretical physics. Mathematics and
problem solving has always been one of his favorite pass-times.
His first experience with computers came at the age of 9 when he
experimented with an HP-85
microcomputer (click
here for a picture). His first venture into commercial software
development came in 1984, when he and his brother
Mike wrote some demo software for a Schneider CPC-464 (picture).
The software was custom-written for a mail order company in Dutch and in
French.
Things got a little more serious after that. In 1991, he finished companion
software for
Astronomical Algorithms, a book on mathematical
astronomy. The software was published in Turbo Pascal, QuickBasic, and
C. A translator program he built in a day allowed him to convert over
7,000 lines of code in less than 2 hours. It sold about 4,000 copies worldwide.
The code is used in several commercial and shareware programs, including
SkyMap by SkyMap Software,
The Sky by Software Bisque, and
The Earth Centered Universe by Nova Astrometrics.
Extreme Optimization helps companies around the world build better systems.
Over the years, we have acquired experience and expertise in the following
areas:
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Building simple models to capture the essence of complex data.
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Numerical modeling of real-life systems for scientific and engineering
applications.
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Numerical computing.
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Algorithm design and optimization.
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Code review and optimization.
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.NET based web applications.
For more information, please e-mail info@extremeoptimization.com.
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