Accelerated Technology Laboratories (ATL) has promoted Fred Rider to the position of director of support services.

Interactive Supercomputing (ISC) has appointed ISC board member, Bill Strecker, as its chief technology officer (CTO), while former AMD HPC marketing director David Rich has joined as vice president of marketing.

Linguamatics has expanded into Delaware, USA and appointed Susan LeBeau as director of North American Sales.

KineMatik has appointed Dr Aaron Norman as vice president of implementation and services. Dr Norman will report directly to Thomas Cassidy, CEO of KineMatik.

Symyx Technologies has promoted Trevor Heritage to president of Symyx Software.

Surak Perera joins Adept having recently completed a MEng in Aerospace at Southampton University.

ChemAxon has appointed Alex Drijver as CEO. The arrival signals the company's increased focus on business development and market position. Ferenc Csizmadia, founder and former CEO, moves to chairman and head of Research and Development.

Dr John William Poduska has joined Interactive Supercomputing Inc.s (ISC) board of directors.

When the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is switched on later this year, a computing student from the UK will help make sure things run smoothly in the IT department.

Kinematik announced that Kevin Keenan has been promoted to vice president of software development and will report directly to Thomas Cassidy, CEO of KineMatik.