RES Inc.

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RES Incorporated began in business as a consulting firm in public policy analysis and research, but later became better known for its software development and application service provider (ASP) services. RES Incorporated is incorporated under Canadian federal law. Rolf E. Schliewen formed RES Incorporated in 1980. Dr. Martin Laplante is the partner in charge of software development and urban modeling. Pavan C. Joshi directs intellectual property projects. Key people of RES Incorporated have records of successful work for public agencies, mostly in the Government of Canada. Engagements covered quantitative aspects of public policy, often involving computing, organization studies, and program evaluation. Subjects included native affairs, unemployment insurance, defense, consumer protection, government travel, the Auditor General, purchasing, justice, and health and welfare. An example: during the Reagan Administration, under contract to Canada, RES Incorporated conducted a national survey on the status and outlook for metric conversion in American industry. Based on U.S. results, RES Incorporated performed the final evaluation of the metric program in Canada. More recent examples include developing policy for changes to residential mortgage laws, Results-Based Management and Accountability Frameworks (RMAFs), and urban density modeling. RES Incorporated entered the field of document management and specialized in the modernization of intellectual property offices. This line of business took RES Incorporated from Canada to several countries, including Russia, China, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia (supported by CIDA), and Argentina. Software development began with research into algorithms for finding documents in large files, such as patent documents. RES Incorporated staff has publications in this area and one U.S. software patent (pending). Current products and services: LookWAYup © is a proprietary software set and international ASP service, running from Ottawa, Canada (see lookwayup.com ). The LookWAYup dictionary is used around the world, and has attracted customers among major mobile telecom firms, including Vodafone, British Telecom O2, Orange, Cingular, AT&T, Verizon Wireless, SingTel Mobile, and many others. Another product of RES Incorporated is TheirTime ©, a facility that shows mobile telephone customers the time at the destination of long distance calls before a call is placed. Current original development is in an expert system for document search across several languages. In 2007, RES launched the Reference.MD medical encyclopedia , a comprehensive medical reference site aimed at health professionals and available for free without registration. With about a quarter million pages, Reference.MD organizes and cross-references all medical concepts, and introduces an interactive tree-based Medical Concept Navigator.

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