Dr. Ian Foster Joins the inSORS Advisory Board

CHICAGO --- inSORS Integrated Communications, Inc. has today announced that Dr. Ian Foster has joined the inSORS Advisory Board.

Dr. Foster, who is the co-author of "The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure," is an internationally recognized researcher and leader in the area of Grid computing.

As a member of the Advisory Board, Dr. Foster adds a new dimension to an already dynamic group of people who lend business expertise and technological vision to inSORS.

"The addition of Ian to our board dramatically strengthens not only our standing in the Grid community, but also our growth focus. Ian is as business minded as he is technologically savvy and is certain to be a great asset to inSORS," noted inSORS' CEO Michael Galich.

For his part, Dr. Foster is eager to be a part of the commercial side of grid computing, a collection of distributed computing technologies that he helped define and develop. "In inSORS I see practical, commercial applications of what we have worked on for years in academic and laboratory settings. inSORS is completing the cycle, so to speak, by fulfilling the many-to-many communications aspect of our project."

Dr. Foster is currently the Associate Division Director and Senior Scientist at the Distributed Systems Lab at Argonne National Laboratory as well as a professor of computer science at the University of Chicago.

inSORS Integrated Communications, Inc. is a Chicago-based communications firm specializing in the development and support of collaboration software and solutions for multipoint communications.

For more about inSORS, visit www.insors.com or call 312-786-9169.