Release published (edited) by the Los Alamos Monitor, September 7, 1997.
RELEASED BY:
Whistlesoft, Inc.
168 Dos Brazos
Los Alamos, NM 87544
CONTACT PERSONS AND PHONE NUMBERS:
Dr. Richard R. Silbar, President, Whistlesoft, Inc.
(505) 662-7309
email: silbar@whistlesoft.com
Los Alamos Software Company Honored
Whistlesoft, Inc., a Los Alamos software development company, has won an honorable mention in a national contest for educational software. The eighth annual educational software contest was sponsored by the journal "Computers in Physics."
Whistlesoft will accept the award and give an invited talk about its "Forces" tutorial at the American Association of Physics Teachers meeting, to be held in New Orleans in January, 1998. The tutorial uses multimedia techniques to enhance the student user's rate of learning and retention of the material.
"This is quite an honor for us," said Richard R. Silbar, president of Whistlesoft and Project Leader. "And it caps a year of hard work in getting this piece of software out the door."
Other people involved in developing the tutorial are William C. Mead (of Adaptive Network Solutions Research, Inc.) and Robert A. Williams, also of Los Alamos.
The work being honored is part of a larger effort by Whistlesoft to develop a tutorial course on particle accelerators and beams. The topics covered are at the high school or undergraduate level.
This project is supported by a "Small Business Innovative Research" grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.
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