Nurture your network and further your business goals with smart intelligence on the people and companies that matter most to you. Itas programs lie behind the web sites and operations centers of major airlines and travel agencies. The secrets behind crazy airtravel prices 28 09 2009. Vasudev rams blog on software innovation, opensource and proprietary, worldwide. Python, d, go, freepascal, unix, databases, open source. The secrets behind crazy airtravel prices themaldivianali. Longtime customer air canada is the only one that has signed on so far, but ita says that deals with other airlines are in. Our search engines power popular web sites such as orbitz and cheap tickets. Ita software s mobile flightsearch app onthefly has been discontinued as of december 2017. Computer scientists find unexpected depths in airfare search msri.
Ita software produces search and optimization software for the travel industry. Matrix, itas original airfare shopping engine, has yielded years of traveler insights and been the origin for many of our innovative flight shopping features. But ita certainly hopes that at least a handful of them will buy soon. Stay informed and uptodate on your network with relsci news and business alerting service. Between 1996 and 2007, i was chief scientist and cofounder of ita software, a company that provides search and optimization software and services to the travel industry, as well as core transaction, storage and distribution services for airlines and travel agents. These are a set of annotated slides ita software has. When it comes to pricing airline tickets, the skys the limit literally. This document is an annotated set of slides on the computational complexity of air.
The easiest place to see the code in action is on our web site, 3. The vast majority of our thinking code is in common lisp. Its software now powers twothirds of all online flight sales in. Airline prices must be calculated, not just looked up in a database. 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. We use cookies to make interactions with our website easy and meaningful, to better understand the use of our services, and to tailor advertising. The goal is to give somebody with an undergraduate level computer science background enough information to understand why air travel.
Ita software is slowly replacing the industrys hardware and software with common lisp code running on linux pcs, that uses relatively involved algorithms that show off our academic cs background. I was cofounder and coo until 2007 at ita software. Behind the fiendish complexities of airfare pricing wired. A revolutionary software system could take some of the tech turbulence out of air travel.
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