InterQuest Adds More Awards to its List-FACES Captures 1999 Golden MIM Award and Crime Stoppers International President's Award.MONTREAL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 27, 1999-- InterQuest has added a new laurel Laurel, cities, United States Laurel. 1 Town (1990 pop. 19,438), Prince Georges co., central Md., about halfway between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore; patented in the late 1600s, inc. 1870. to its growing list of awards and achievements. Having recently wooed business audiences in Japan with its revolutionary product, FACES, The Ultimate Composite Picture, the St. Hubert-based company has received a 1999 Golden MIM MIM Metal Injection Molding MIM Mendelian Inheritance in Man MIM Mobile Instant-Messaging MIM Man in the Middle MIM Multilateral Initiative on Malaria MIM Metal-Insulator-Metal MIM Master of International Management MIM Made in Mexico Award (Multimedia and Info-Highways International Market) in the Best Business Solutions category. FACES - a product which has already generated success in its sales, promotion and popularity among police and general public markets - was recognized for its creativity and innovation and its application as a business-based solution. MIM aims to be a meeting place for the new information technologies and communications industry communications industry, broadly defined, the business of conveying information. Although communication by means of symbols and gestures dates to the beginning of human history, the term generally refers to mass communications. . The Golden MIM awards are awarded in recognition of excellence and innovation in the fields of multimedia, business solutions, technological innovation and special effects special effects, in motion pictures, cinematographic techniques that create illusions in the audience's minds as well as the illusions created using these techniques. . InterQuest walked away with the grand prize golden award in the Best Business Solutions category. It is indeed an accomplishment for the young company, which only a year ago, officially launched FACES to great acclaim. The ceremonies were held last month in Montreal. "This is, indeed, a tremendous honour for us," said Pierre Cote, the creator of FACES and President of InterQuest. "It is very encouraging for the work that we have done to make FACES the product that it is today." The MIM recognition comes in the wake of another recent achievement for InterQuest. Dr. Alan J. Pratt, President of Crime Stoppers International Crime Stoppers International Foundation or CSI Foundation (CSI) is an umbrella organization that aims to spread the Crimestoppers program in countries around the world. , the largest volunteer crime solving organization in the world, visited Montreal recently to present a "President's Award The President's Award may mean:
Pratt said the prestigious award was given for outstanding contributions to law enforcement in the field of crime solving and for dedication and support to society world-wide. InterQuest was selected in 1999 by the Canadian government as being among the best of the crop of new Canadian New Canadian Noun Canad a recent immigrant to Canada products. FACES was among 48 international companies to attend the Japan External Trade Office (JETRO JETRO Japan External Trade Organization ) PC Trade Show last August. In October 1998, InterQuest donated about 50,000 copies of FACES to various sources, including 30,000 to police agencies across the U.S. and Canada as a gesture of goodwill and co-operation with police in the war against crime. InterQuest also donated 4,600 copies to forensic artists throughout the world and another 14,000 to all major media outlets in Canada and the U.S. Last December, FACES was unveiled to the general public. With already 60,000 copies in use world-wide, FACES allows the recreation of photo-perfect composites from a bank of 4,000 elements in only 10 minutes. FACES is literally changing the face of police work and is already receiving rave reviews from the law enforcement community. Each week, dozens of letters from police officers pour into InterQuest's office from across North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , expressing appreciation for having a new tool to fight crime. Already supported by American and Canadian law enforcement departments, FACES attracted more fans when it was introduced at the 1998 Comdex show in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. . FACES promises to be successful in the classroom, where it helps students develop their observation, language, computer and safety-awareness skills. For more information, we invite you to come and visit our website at www.facesinterquest.com. |
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