Nash Information Services Inc.

Welcome to the Nash Information Services Inc. website. In business since 1976, Nash Information Services is a federally incorporated, Canadian company that provided specialty consulting and publishing services to government and industry world-wide. John and Mary Nash, the principals of the company, continue to apply their expertise, especially in not-for-profit service to the communities in which they are involved. They remain interested in serving clients who value their specialized knowledge. However, NIS is no longer actively marketing its services.

Who are we?

• Education and experience

• Our books and journal/magazine articles including Practical Forecasting for Managers  

• Our Software and publications we distribute
  

What do we do?

Community involvement

John

• Several packages for carrying out optimization calculations in the R statistical system (http://www.r-project.org)
• Activist with the Ottawa-Gatineau R User Group and co-administrator for the R Project in the Google Summer of Code 2011.
• Caller and coordinator for the Ottawa English Country Dance Club
• Past President, Ottawa Canada Linux Users Group
• Condo board member, CCC21

Mary

• President, Funeral Information Society of Ottawa
• Director, Funeral Cooperative of Ottawa
• member, Ottawa Celtic SlowJam/

Contract, Consulting and Related Work

• Complete contracts list

• Information management and information structuring services

• Scientific and statistical computing services

• Risk management and opportunity anticipation

• Quality and productivity improvement (see our etutor.sf.net project for an example)

• Training Services

• Data management services

• Holders of Canadian Trademark SNOOPGUARD for computer security applications.
  (Note that the snoopguard.com domain name is held by John Stower, West Kirby, UK.)

Writing and Publishing

• Authors of Practical Forecasting for Managers, London: Arnold Publishers

• Editing and preparation of materials for publication, introducing our new First Person History Project

• Publishing of specialty materials in both paper and non-paper format

• Publication of Managing Technological Risk: Case Studies and Methods

• Republication of Nash/Walker-Smith book Nonlinear Parameter Estimation

• Electronic publishing in diverse formats, including PostScript, Acrobat, HTML, and associated image and sound files, read about our experience here

• Directory production and maintenance Women in Ottawa-Carleton

• Web site design, installation, maintenance and Internet training

For fun

What's on the music scene in Ottawa Check out English Country Dancing in Ottawa

Please note: The information in the genealogy section is stored on a different server which may be slower to respond.

Genealogy Information

Frohn Faces and Times: Some descendants of Franciscus Frohn 1718 - 2001
De Frohns: Beeld van een Familie, Afstammelingen van Franciscus Frohn 1718 - 2001

The Nash Family of Pembury, circa 1750-2002

The Moss Family of S. London, circa 1750-2004

You may find FOTOHTML useful in organizing your family photos for display.

For further information on Nash Information Services Inc. products and services, please send e-mail to mnash _at_ nashinfo.com,

This page, linked pages, and all contents, are

Copyright (C) 1994 and later by
Nash Information Services Inc., #903, 373 Laurier Ave. E., Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 8X6
Canada

2005-11-12