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Allaire Corporation

Allaire Corporation was a computer software company founded by Jeremy and JJ Allaire in Minnesota, later headquartered in Cambridge, then Newton, Massachusetts.

Architecture of Windows NT

This is distinct from the concept of a "service process", which is a user mode component somewhat analogous to a daemon in Unix-like operating systems.

Attitude control

Typically, the attitude control algorithms are part of the software running on the hardware which receives commands from the ground and formats vehicle data Telemetry for transmission to a ground station.

Comodo Group

is a privately held group of companies providing computer software and SSL digital certificates, based in Clifton, New Jersey, United States.

Guitar Rig

Primarily designed for electric guitar and bass, the software uses amplifier modeling to allow real-time digital signal processing in both standalone and studio (VST/DXi/RTAS/AU) environments.

Launchd

launchd is a unified, open-source service management framework for starting, stopping and managing daemons, applications, processes, and scripts.

Linux range of use

Components of the Linux kernel, such as Netfilter or the Linux network scheduler, in conjunction with the available free and open-source routing daemons BIRD, B.A.T.M.A.N., Quagga and XORP fulfill the task very well.

NCIX

NCIX.com (or Netlink Computer Inc.) is an online computer hardware and software retailer based in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, founded in 1996 by Steve Wu (伍啟儀).

Network Computer

Because many NCs did not use Intel CPUs or Microsoft software, Microsoft and Intel developed a competing standard called NetPC.

Robert L. Cook

Robert L. Cook (December 10, 1952) is a computer graphics researcher and developer, and the co-creator of the RenderMan rendering software.

Software fault tolerance

Software fault tolerance is the ability of computer software to continue its normal operation despite the presence of system or hardware faults.

Sol Katz

Sol Katz (August 3, 1947 – April 23, 1999) was an American software developer who pioneered geospatial computer software (a sub-category of GIS) and left behind a large body of work in the form of computer applications and format specifications while at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

Superscan

SuperScan is a free connect-based port scanning software designed to detect open TCP and UDP ports on a target computer, determine which services are running on those ports, and run queries such as whois, ping, ICMP traceroute, and Hostname lookups.

System software

System software (or systems software) is computer software designed to operate and control the computer hardware and to provide a platform for running application software.

U-form

U-forms were developed at MAYA Design as part of the Visage Information Visualization System, a joint project of MAYA and Carnegie Mellon University funded by DARPA and The Army Research Laboratory.

Ventilator 202

During the second half of the 1980s, Ventilator 202 broadcast computer software recorded on cassette tapes for popular home computers Galaksija, ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64.


see also

Arcada

Arcada Software, was a computer software company that was formed in early 1994.

Brian Reffin Smith

In the UK in 1979, Smith wrote 'Jackson', one of the first digital painting programs, for the Research Machines 380Z computer, software which was distributed by the Ministry of Education and widely used in schools and elsewhere.

British and Malaysian English differences

Most computer software in Malaysia including Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office come pre-set with English (United States) as the default and these settings are seldom changed to English (United Kingdom) resulting in the proliferation of American English in many places of work, local universities and other places with heavy reliance on documents and content created by using computers.

Burton C. Gray

He founded Scientific Time Sharing Corporation with Dan Dyer and Lawrence M. Breed, a computer software firm in the Washington, D.C. area.

Business logic

In computer software, business logic or domain logic is the part of the program that encodes the real-world business rules that determine how data can be created, displayed, stored, and changed.

Cero

Computer Entertainment Rating Organization, the organization that rates video games and computer software in Japan

Christopher B. Wright

The comic is a satirical and cynical view of computer software companies and operating systems in general, and of the antics of Microsoft, Apple Computer, OS/2, and Linux in particular.

Computer Animation Production System

Since the merger with Pixar, as most of CAPS was shut down and dismantled, Disney's subsequent traditionally animated productions (How to Hook Up Your Home Theater, The Princess and the Frog, The Ballad of Nessie, and the new Winnie the Pooh) were produced using Toon Boom Harmony computer software, which offered an updated digital animation system.

Ed Esber

After Esber’s pioneering work in Personal Computer Software, Esber has been on the leading edge of the integration of computers and multimedia at Creative Labs, the integration of computers, toys and learning at Creative Insights, the integration of computers, communication and telephony at SoloPoint; the mobilization of email and internet access at Poqet Computer, portability of Personal Computers at Poqet Computer and tablet computing at Motion Computing.

ESW

Embedded software, computer software that plays an integral role in the electronics it is supplied with.

Euclideon

Euclideon Pty Ltd is an Australian computer software company best known for an unreleased middleware 3D graphics engine, called Unlimited Detail.

Graphing Calculator

NuCalc, a computer software program able to perform many graphing calculator functions

H. Donald Wilson

Lessac Technologies, Inc. (LTI) was created in 2000, and is now developing computer software for text-to-speech technology.

Home theater

Media center, refers either to a dedicated computer appliance (like a Home theater PC) or to a specialized personal computer software, both of which are adapted for playing various kinds of media (music, movies, photos etc.), and it usually has a 10-foot user interface design to be used in living-room TV with a remote control.

HVM

A hardware virtual machine in the computer software virtualization environment Xen

It Works

IT Works, a computer software company based in Raleigh, North Carolina

Károly Simonyi

He is the father of Charles Simonyi, a prominent computer-software executive who oversaw the creation of Microsoft Office.

Learjet 85

Computer software design tools were used on the project, including CATIA and HyperSizer, and similar wing technology employed as on the Bombardier CSeries.

Linux Mark Institute

The Linux Mark Institute (LMI) is an organization which administers the "Linux" trademark on behalf of Linus Torvalds for computer software which includes the Linux kernel, computer hardware utilizing Linux-based software, and for services associated with the implementation and documentation of Linux-based products.

Membership software

Membership software (also known as an Association management system) is a computer software solution which provides associations, clubs and other Membership organizations with the functionality they require to provide their services to their members.

Miroslaw Rogala

For much of the first decade of the twenty-first century, Rogala has been involved with several series of artworks for which he has manipulated photographs using Mind's-Eye-View computer software developed by Ford Oxaal.

Mobile simulation

Mobile simulator, computer software that emulates a mobile device

Molokai Island Times

It was founded in December 2004 by Brennan Purtzer and Darrell Williams with a subsidy from computer software guru John McAfee, Williams' English cousin, and served as the newest community paper for "The Friendly Isle" of Molokai from 2005–2006, before becoming known as "The Molokai Times" in January 2007.

Mrs. Munger's Class

Directed by animator Tim Maloney, and produced by Disney for ABC's "One Saturday Morning" children's television programming, the skits used Adobe After Effects and Photoshop computer software to manipulate photographs from a school yearbook.

Pareidolix

It was originally titled Unistat, but the name was changed in 2009 to avoid confusion with the Unisystem RPG, as well as the Unistat computer software.

Philip Woodward

In the 1960s Philip Woodward's computer software team in Malvern provided the Royal Radar Establishment with the ALGOL 68R compiler, the world's first implementation of the programming language ALGOL 68, and provided the armed services with their first standard high-level programming language, Coral 66, for the small military computers of the day.

Pierre Bézier

Bézier developed the notation, consisting of nodes with attached control handles, with which the curves are represented in computer software.

Sniffer

Packet analyzer (aka network analyzer, protocol analyzer or sniffer), computer software or hardware that can intercept and log traffic passing over a digital network

Sniffy

Sniffy: The Virtual Rat, also known as Sniffy Pro and Sniffy Pro for Windows, a suite of computer software.

The Code-Breakers

Intel, IBM, Sun and Microsoft all seem to agree that FOSS is a welcome presence in computer software.

The Elektrik Keyboard

In the late '70s it added personal computers and MIDI music to its lineup, and began publishing Apple II computer software written by programmer Chris Oberth. The software, advertised in the company's catalog and sold on cassette, largely consisted of games including some that emulated popular arcade titles.

Too Much Media

Too Much Media is a Freehold, New Jersey-based computer software company that created and maintains the NATS, Carma and Sparta software packages.

Weekly newspaper

Like larger newspapers, most weekly newspapers these days are paginated (or laid out) using computer software, using programs such as Adobe PageMaker, Adobe InDesign or Quark Xpress.

Wrike

2011 - Finalist in the American Business Awards in the category “Computer Software – New Version.”.