CAD Society Announces Winner of the 2005 Joe Greco Community Award

Lynn Allen, Cadalyst Columnist and Worldwide Autodesk Technical Evangelist to be recognized at COFES2005

BETHESDA, MD, March 23, 2005 � The CAD Society, a not-for-profit CAD industry association, today announced the winner of the 2005 Joe Greco Community Award.

The recipient of this year�s award is Lynn Allen, Cadalyst columnist and worldwide Autodesk Technical Evangelist. The award will be presented at a ceremony on April 16 at COFES2005: The Congress on the Future of Engineering Software, being held in Scottsdale, Arizona.

The CAD Society�s Joe Greco Community Award (previously The CAD Society Award for Community) is awarded each year to one individual who has distinguished themselves by improving communication and developing community within the CAD industry. It has been renamed in memory of industry analyst and editor, Joe Greco, who died last year. Joe was also President of the CAD Society at the time.

For the past ten years Allen has written a monthly column in Cadalyst magazine called "Circles and Lines." She started using AutoCAD� software with Release 1.4, over 19 years ago, and has taught at the corporate and collegiate level for 13 years. A sought-after public speaker with a unique comedic style, Lynn is always one of the highest rated speakers at Autodesk University� and speaks to more than 20,000 AutoCAD users each year.

�Lynn is a great person and is and has been an expert in just about all aspects of AutoCAD for many years,� said Jeff Rowe, acting president of The CAD Society. �With her latest book, �AutoCAD 2002 Inside and Out� she continues to show her dedication to helping the CAD community.�

The CAD Society is a not-for-profit industry association with the goal of fostering a community and encouraging open communication among those who make their living within the CAD industry including AEC, mechanical, manufacturing, and GIS.

About COFES 

The sixth annual Congress on the Future of Engineering Software, presented by HP, will take place at the Scottsdale Plaza Resort, Scottsdale, Ariz., April 14-17, 2005. COFES, a mainstay of the engineering software industry, provides an intensive conference atmosphere where private and public discussions are held. Attendees are executives, end users, CAD and PLM vendors, analysts, and press who work together to determine, define, and clarify the business issues of engineering technologies.

COFES is an invitation-only event. 

www.cofes.com

About The CAD Society 

The CAD Society is a not-for-profit industry association with the goal of fostering community and encouraging open communication among those who make their living within the CAD industry including AEC, mechanical, manufacturing, and GIS. The CAD Society is dedicated to creating an informative community and improving the tools its members employ in order to get their jobs done. This is achieved by providing an open forum of communication, which helps to illuminate the practices of industry vendors. It has been a leader in creating interoperability guidelines that encourage software vendors to develop applications that can openly share data.

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