Dr. Naphtali Rishe, Renowned Database and Geographical Internet Pioneer, Joins US Condo Exchange Advisory Board

Miami, FL, November 07, 2006 --(PR.com)-- US Condo Exchange, LLC, www.uscondex.com, the first global advertising portal and international listing service for condos, announced today that Dr. Naphtali Rishe, the Founder and Director of the High Performance Database Research Center at Florida International University, has joined the US Condo Exchange Advisory Board. Mr. Rishe is an international pioneer in the use of Internet programming for satellite imagery of geographical information, with his work supported by NASA, the National Science Foundation and IBM. The primary outlet for that work is Terrafly, www.terrafly.com, which Rishe founded, a website with technology that allows users to “fly over” vast land areas to view everything from satellite 3-D views of buildings and their surroundings, to maps showing the contour, shapes and elevation of land. The service also shows billions of pieces of data, including neighborhood and demographic information, schools, economic data, property comps and more. Terrafly was developed in partnership with the US Geological Survey, www.usgs.gov. Dr. Rishe now brings his unique expertise and insight to US Condo Exchange, which continues to develop cutting edge web-based solutions for condo developers, brokers, buyers and sellers.

“Dr. Rishe’s remarkable expertise will heighten our efforts at being on the cutting edge of web-based solutions for the international condo marketplace,” said Richard Swerdlow, Chief Executive Officer of the US Condo Exchange. “We set out to create the most well-informed marketplace possible, and with Dr. Rishe’s help, we will bring that information to a whole new level.”

In addition to his work on Terrafly and the High Performance Database Research Center, Dr. Rishe has four U.S. patents on semantic database performance, Internet data extraction and computer medicine. He has authored two books on database design, edited four books on database management and high performance computing, and authored 200 papers in journals and proceedings on geographic information systems, software engineering, databases, and the Internet. Dr. Rishe, a computer science professor at Florida International University (FIU), was the first faculty member to receive the Outstanding FIU Professor Award.

Rishe received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University and M.S. and a B.S. Summa Cum Laude in Computer Science from the Israel Institute of Technology.

US Condo Exchange, www.uscondex.com, is the first and fastest growing global advertising portal and listing service for condominiums. US Condo Exchange currently has over 160,000 condos listed on its site located in the U.S. and in 40 countries around the world, valued at over $60 billion. The website cost-effectively delivers unparalleled international exposure to developers, brokers and for-sale-by-owners through the seamless distribution of its listings to a global network of real estate websites visited by over 15 million viewers per month. US Condo Exchange also features a simple and automated self-listing process, and partners with major media companies to automate the listing of for-sale and for-rent condo classifieds.

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