Feigenbaum to Join ANTs software.com's Advisory Board

ANTs software.com, a developer of advanced technologies to speed up computer processing, announced that Dr. Edward Feigenbaum has joined the Company's Advisory Board. Dr. Feigenbaum, Kumagai Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, is also Director Emeritus of the Knowledge Systems Laboratory at Stanford.

"Dr. Feigenbaum's information technology industry experience and leadership are unusually valuable additions to ANTs Advisory Board, and we are most fortunate to have him join our quest into the future," said Frederick D. Pettit, Chairman and CEO. "Dr. Feigenbaum has a distinguished background as a top computer science researcher, strategist, and developer. Furthermore, he has exceptional experience in bringing technology to commercialization. These assets and his network of contacts throughout the information technology industry are expected to provide numerous valuable inputs to our strategic and operational planning."

From 1994 to 1997, Dr. Feigenbaum served as Chief Scientist of the US Air Force at the Pentagon. Dr. Feigenbaum pioneered the development of the expert systems field and participated in the start up of several companies that commercialized expert systems technology. From 1976-81, he was Chairman of the Stanford University Computer Science Department.

"I first became acquainted with ANTs as a result of talks with my former colleague, Dr. Thomas Binford, now head of R&D at ANTs. I found what he described to be intriguing. I have joined the Company's Advisory Board because I like to be involved in revolutionary IT projects, and ANTs software has the possibility of revolutionizing the speed at which enterprise computing is done."

Dr. Feigenbaum obtained his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University. He is an accomplished author and editor, including co-editing the early anthology, Computers and Thought and the four volume Handbook of Artificial Intelligence, and co-authoring two books about AI and expert systems: The Fifth Generation; and The Rise of the Expert Company.

Dr. Feigenbaum was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was also elected the second president of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. In 1995, he was awarded the highest research honor of Computer Science, the ACM Turing Award of the Association for Computing Machinery.

About ANTs software.com

ANTs software.com is an emerging Application Service Provider for Performance. The Company's vision is to become the leader in performance enhancement services for enterprise computing. The basis for the Company's business is its patented software technology, ANTs (an acronym for "Asynchronous, Non-preemptive Tasks").

ANTs is an enabling middleware technology that can interact with many applications such as ERP, e-commerce, B2B and other related areas to improve application and database performance. The Company's corporate offices are located at 801 Mahler Road, Burlingame, California. For more information visit our Web site at www.antssoftware.com or call us at 650-259-9105.

Contact ANTs software, Leigh Salvo, 650-259-9105 x33, leigh.salvo@antssoftware.com.