WILMINGTON, Del., March 6, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Third-Order Nanotechnologies, Inc. (Pink Sheets:TDON) announced today that Terry Turpin (Director, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Essex Corporation, a recently acquired subsidiary of Northrop Grumman) has joined the company's Science and Commercialization Board of Advisors. Mr. Turpin will advise Third-Order in the targeted development of products for primarily military and government markets based upon the company's recent breakthroughs in electro-optic materials.
"I am very excited about Third-Order's material breakthroughs, which can be of great aid in the advancement of entirely new generations of optical devices," Terry Turpin stated upon joining the company's Advisory Board. "For over thirty years, I have been searching for materials of this sort in my development of truly revolutionary signal processing equipment. Third-Order's new materials could dramatically improve the design and performance of current optical processors, devices which we have demonstrated can greatly out-perform state-of-the-art digital computers in a number of key operations."
Mr. Turpin holds patents for an analog optical processor, currently in use by government agencies, which represent up to a 50,000 times improvement over conventional digital processors.
Terry Turpin began his engineering career developing computing engines for the National Security Agency (NSA) where he became Chief of the Advanced Processing Technologies Division, representing the NSA on the Tri-Service Optical Processing Committee organized by the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. Mr. Turpin's unified theory of two signal interactions has given Essex a competitive edge in the signal processing community.
About Third-Order Nanotechnologies
Third-Order Nanotechnologies is emerging from a development stage research and development company with commercial introduction of its high-activity, high-stability organic polymers for applications in electro-optic and all-optical device markets. Electro-optic devices convert data from electric signals into optical signals for use in high speed communications systems and in optical interconnects for high-speed data transfer. All-optic devices, while still some time from commercial application, control the flow of light with optical (not electric) signals. For corporate information regarding Third-Order Nanotechnologies, Inc., contact Investor Relations Manager Brock Malky at (724) 742-4420, icccbam@aol.com.
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