San Jose, CA and Irvine, CA (Vocus) August 17, 2010
Equalis, the innovative on-line destination for the mathematics community, announces its partnership with hypios, the leading online problem-solving marketplace, to provide the first integrated end-to-end platform for open innovation in math-centric disciplines. The joint open innovation solution provides an integrated platform to pose challenging science, engineering, process or math-centric problems to the community, leveraging the Equalis on-line network.
Equalis’ platform is optimized for collaborative problem-solving in mathematics. Users can submit problems specific to their areas of expertise to community forums, exchange knowledge in specialist groups, and the community can be tapped to solve prize-purse challenges posed by the R&D functions of large corporations.
“We call it an end-to-end open-innovation platform because math-centric professionals can do everything from collaboratively generating a novel proof, to contributing to an open-source software project, to solving a corporate prize-challenge. The common pulse of the Equalis community is the desire to explore challenging areas in mathematics,” said Carmine Napolitano, CEO and President, Equalis.
The partnership with hypios allows Equalis to disseminate relevant corporate R&D challenges to its expert community. hypios’ advanced expert-identification technologies can match specific problems to the Equalis experts with the creative skill needed to solve them.
“We host a dynamic, vibrant math community that brings together disparate organizations and expertise”, added Napolitano, “with the addition of the hypios marketplace, we enable companies or individuals with challenging problems to rapidly team up with the experts that can solve them fast”.
"hypios is excited to partner with Equalis and leverage their dynamic on-line expert community and knowledge-base for innovative problem solving” said Anthony DeFilippo, President, hypios. “We look forward to innovating together."
About Equalis
Equalis is the innovative on-line destination for the mathematics community. It provides the most vibrant and far reaching math-centric community on the internet, enabling the free flow of ideas, cutting-edge research, open source software, problem solving, open innovation and job opportunities for individuals and organizations with a common interest in math and math-centric endeavors. To join the community or for more information: http://www.equalis.com.
About hypios
hypios.com uses intelligent crowdsourcing to help organizations solve Research & Development (R&D) problems. The 120,000 “Solvers” on its platform, representing diverse disciplines and industries, hailing from over 150 countries. “Seekers” can post R&D problems to the network and select a deadline and a price for the “Solver.” hypios is only paid when solutions are found.
Press Contacts
Equalis
Brittany Torcellini
Brittany(at)equalis(dot)com
408-912-1686 x 1021
Michael Roguly
hypios
mroguly(at)hypios(dot)com
949-233-3404
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