Ita software, one of the largest employers of lispers. The firm offers services for various sectors including domestic and international airlines, online and traditional travel agents, corporate and governmentmanaged booking tools, global distribution systems, metasearch services, leisure packaging systems, and technol ogy providers. The company was founded by jeremy wertheimer, a computer scientist from the mit artificial intelligence laboratory and cooper union, with his partner richard aiken in 1996. Us20100305983a1 providing travel information using. Nurture your network and further your business goals with smart intelligence on the people and companies that matter most to you. Joyce torres is technical solutions engineer at ita software, inc. Car rental business news technology conference, ota. A revolutionary software system could take some of the tech turbulence out of air travel. It is headquartered in the citigroup center, chicago, illinois. For a very long time, the root directory of the qpx source code tree was call. David sandbergs professional profile on relationship science, the database of decision makers. Reveal deeper insights into your organizations relationships with. Boyan has filed for patents to protect the following inventions.
Oct 22, 20 both caras comment and cors are correct. Orbitz licenses ita software s lisppowered qpx software to power their site. What i found was matrix 2, an advanced flight planner. Ita s programs lie behind the web sites and operations. Former commercial director travel at ita software, inc. David sandberg is former managerbusiness development at ita software, inc.
However, by 1998 it became clear that the company was going to be neither a travel agent nor purely internetbased. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the date listed. Wo2004109558a1 query widening for query caches for. Crm customer service customer experience point of sale lead management event management survey. Cate whitfield is former vice presidentquality assurance at ita software, inc. Travel planning system that reprices travel options to. David sandberg, former managerbusiness development at. Us20080167912a1 providing travel information using. Travel planning system that produces answers involving. Orbitz worldwide brands have been migrated to a common technology platform, which enables the same platform to service multiple travel brands in multiple languages in different markets and currencies as well. Joyce torres, technical solutions engineer at ita software. It plans to compete with the traditional gdss and emerging distributors. As edward hasbroucks point out in one post, if you look through the patents of ita matrix, you will discover that they developed a novel crsgds crawling system and a caching system. Come and see the site and domain statistics for such as ip, domain, whois, seo, contents, bounce rate, time on site, social status and website speed and lots more to see.
The jscheme web programming project list jschemeuser. The goal is to give somebody with an undergraduate level computer science background enough information to understand why air travel. Behind the fiendish complexities of airfare pricing wired. Us20080168093a1 providing travel information using a. Ita s founder, jeremy wertheimer, originally called the company internet travel agent. Between 1996 and 2007, i was chief scientist and cofounder of ita software, a company that provided search and optimization software and services to the travel industry, as well as core transaction, storage and distribution services for airlines and travel agents. The story began a few years ago, when jeremy wertheimer, then a graduate student in computer science at mit, and a group of fellow graduate students set out to develop an airline pricing search engine. Computer scientists find unexpected depths in airfare search problem by sara robinson visiting a travel agency in the early 1990s, jeremy wertheimer, then a graduate student in artificial intelligence at mit, was astounded at the archaic software used to search for airfares. They use ai, machine learning, and computer vision algorithms to block emailbased phishing attacks. Stay informed and uptodate on your network with relsci news and business alerting service. David sandberg, former managerbusiness development at ita. The vast majority of our thinking code is in common lisp.
Apr 08, 2018 as edward hasbroucks point out in one post, if you look through the patents of ita matrix, you will discover that they developed a novel crsgds crawling system and a caching system. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the united states patent and trademark office uspto. A computer program product, method and system for producing seat availability information for a mode of travel such as airline travel produce a prediction of availability of a seat in accordance with an availability query. Obviously many things contributed to ita s success, including being in the right place at the right time as ticket sales moved rapidly onto the internet, but here, in my personal opinion, are. Us20100305983a1 providing travel information using cached. I was cofounder and coo until 2007 at ita software.
Wo2005050380a3 generating flight schedules using fare. Cate whitfield, former vice presidentquality assurance at. The prediction is used in place of making an actual query to an airline. Google llc original assignee ita software llc priority date the priority date is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. What is the company that hipmunk copied designwise. Ita s programs lie behind the web sites and operations centers of. A travel query is populated with the predetermined travel parameters and a variable parameter based on identification information associated with the user. Computational complexity of air travel planning yoav.
Ita software produces search and optimization software for the travel. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy of the list. Google llc original assignee ita software llc priority date the priority. It is a case study in cheap linuxintel, ntintel and hpux boxes replacing mainframes, and also the use of lisp and other languages in a serverbased app. Cached travel options that are obtained from prior queries and that satisfy the travel query are presented to the user. It was forwarded to me by my colleague steve l, who used to work at ita as well. Matrix, ita s original airfare shopping engine, has yielded years of traveler insights and been the origin for many of our innovative flight shopping features. Accounting billing and invoicing budgeting payment processing. These are a set of annotated slides ita software has prepared on the computational complexity of air travel planning.
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