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21 unusual facts about software


Aalborg University – Esbjerg

The university offers programmes in information technology, with a Department of Software and Media Technology.

Chemical imaging

Software for chemical imaging is most specific and distinguished from chemical methods such as chemometrics.

Compaq Presario 2200

It also came with several other Software CDs as well as several Internet & Networking utilities.

CVSNT

March Hare Software began sponsorship of the project in July 2004 to guarantee the project's future and to employ the original project manager on CVSNT development and commercial support.

DAZ 3D

The figures can be loaded into 3D posing and rendering applications (such as DAZ's own DAZ Studio or Smith Micro's Poser) to be posed or animated and then rendered.

Esri Canada

industry = Software
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Fieldglass

As of Q1 2013, Fieldglass' client base includes approximately 200 customers, including AIG, American Airlines, BMC Software, CVS Caremark, GlaxoSmithKline, HMS, HP, Johnson & Johnson, Kaiser Permanente, Monsanto, Nokia Siemens Networks, Panasonic, Reed Elsevier, Rio Tinto, Salesforce, Siemens, TELUS, United Airlines, Verizon and VMware.

FitNesse

The idea behind this testing method, as described in Fit for Developing Software, is that the forced collaboration of testers and developers will improve mutual understanding of the system and requirements by forcing the two groups to develop a common language as they learn to communicate together.

FogBugz

FogBugz originally started as an internal bug tracking tool for Fog Creek Software while the company was focused on consulting.

Gratis versus libre

The formal analogy, and the generalization of the Gratis/Libre distinction from Open Software to Open access (publishing), have been made.

Internet protocol suite

At the same time, several smaller companies began offering TCP/IP stacks for DOS and MS Windows, such as the company FTP Software, and the Wollongong Group.

Neural network software

Component based development environments include: Peltarion Synapse, NeuroDimension NeuroSolutions, Scientific Software Neuro Laboratory, and the LIONsolver integrated software.

Pragma Systems

The software development industry in Austin, Texas welcomed Pragma Systems and in a short period of time Pragma Systems was developing networking software for companies like IBM, Tivoli, and Tandem.

PSPLab

It is located in Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, and focuses on researching better perceptual signal processing techniques, particularly in regards to DSP, Perception, and Software.

Sapir Academic College

The college awards Bachelor's degrees in 12 areas (Communication, Cinema and TV, Software Systems, Marketing, Administration and Public Policy, Industrial Management, Law, Human Resources Management, Culture Studies, Logistics, Economics, and Social Work), as well as a multidisciplinary BA (in the Humanities and Social Sciences) and a MA in Administration and Public Policy.

ScriptLogic

August, 2007 Quest Software acquired ScriptLogic Corporation, keeping Scriptlogic as a wholly owned subsidiary allowing Scriptlogic to continue to develop and support its product line.

Software architecture

An ontology for micro-architectural design knowledge, IEEE Software Magazine, Volume: 22, Issue: 2, March–April 2005.

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.

Telecomsoft

Magnetic Scrolls and Argonaut Software were amongst the first developers to benefit from a publishing deal with the label.

Visual CMDB

A Visual CMDB helps manage IT assets(CIs) such as Hardware, Software and network components and associated details such as data files, documentation and service level information.

ZyWeb

ZyNet Ltd (www.zynet.net), which had grown out of Minerva Software, brought their experience as one of the earliest ISPs in the UK.


Apple QuickTake

For users with an Apple Macintosh running System 7 up to Mac OS 9 with a serial port, the QuickTake 200 can be plugged directly into the computer using the Apple QuickTake camera software.

Arfa Karim

S. Somasegar, the vice president of the Software Development Division, wrote about her in his blog.

Blended wing body

-- mention the artist names since Neill Blomkamp is a noteworthy artist e.g. District 9 --> from The Embassy Visual Effects created the photo for the magazine using computer graphics software to depict the future of aviation and air travel.

Cemetech

Cemetech began as a personal website hosted on Homestead and later GeoCities, publishing personal software and hardware projects.

Devgems Data Modeler

It is used by data modelers, database administrators and software developers to create and manage database models and integrate with existing software development tools like Embarcadero Delphi.

EdtFTPj

edtFTPj provides FTP capabilities for popular software packages such as Jalbum and Cyberduck.

Full Pipe

After being discovered by Tom Hall and John Romero at the Russian Game Developer's Conference (KRI-2004), distribution rights were discussed, and a localized version of the game was released (via download only) over Steam in 2006.

Gobe Software

After leaving StyleWare and creating the product later known as ClarisWorks and AppleWorks, Bob Hearn, Scott Holdaway joined Tom Hoke, Scott Lindsey, Bruce Q. Hammond, and Carl Grice who also worked at Apple Computer's Claris division and formed Gobe Software, Inc with the notion to create a next-generation integrated office suite similar to ClarisWorks, but for the BeOS platform.

Hatsune Miku and Future Stars: Project Mirai

Like the original the game primarily makes use of Vocaloids, a series of singing synthesizer software, and the songs created using these vocaloids most notably the virtual-diva Vocaloid Hatsune Miku.

IBRIX Fusion

The software was produced, sold, and supported by IBRIX Incorporated of Billerica, Massachusetts.

Instituto Pedro Nunes

Some examples of successful technological companies born in or otherwise linked to the IPN, include software company Critical Software, thermo-mechanical and electronics engineering company Active Space Technologies, and biotechnology company Crioestaminal.

Internet and terrorism

This grooming leads the recruits to become more and more entangled in terrorist related discussions and are led through a maze of private chat-room’s until personal indoctrination occurs which is often through the use of the secure software Paltalk.

James Ready

His company Montavista Software did pioneering work in adapting the operating system Linux for real-time applications.

John Stasko

John Stasko, John Domingue, Marc H. Brown, Marc and Blaine Price,(editors), Software Visualization: Programming as a Multimedia Experience, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1998.

Joint Test Action Group

Tool vendors sometimes build products around free software like GCC and GDB, with GUI support frequently using Eclipse.

LDRA Testbed

Liverpool Data Research Associates (LDRA) was founded in 1975 by Professor Michael Hennell to commercialize a software test-bed created to perform quality assessments on the mathematical libraries on which his Nuclear physics research at the University of Liverpool depended.

Leica Photogrammetry Suite

While the initial release of LPS (called "Leica Photogrammetry Suite 8.7") was in late 2003, it was a combination of new technology as well as software previously developed by ERDAS (which was acquired by Leica Geosystems in 2003).

Liverpool Data Research Associates

LDRA was founded in 1975 by Professor Michael Hennell to commercialize a software test-bed created to perform quality assessments on the mathematical libraries on which his Nuclear physics research at the University of Liverpool depended.

Luna de Xelajú

A fairly notorious rendition by amateur musician Jared Smith was made famous by its use in the "software toy" Jared: Butcher of Song.

MicroRhythm

MicroRhythm along with MicroDisco, MicroLatin, MicroVocals and MicroTuned was part of a set of music creation software (then advertised as games) developed by Simon Pick (developer of Daredevil Dennis and Rod Land on NES) for Commodore 64/128.

Microsoft Exchange Server

Microsoft now appears to be positioning a combination of Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office Live Communications Server, Live Meeting and Sharepoint as its collaboration software of choice.

Mieschke Hofmann und Partner

The idea was to provide best of class consulting services combining both business process optimization as well as IT services, with SAP software being the primary concentration of the IT services offering.

Model-driven engineering

Companies like Integrated Development Environments (IDE - StP), Higher Order Software (now Hamilton Technologies, Inc., HTI), Cadre Technologies, Bachman Information Systems, and Logic Works (BP-Win and ER-Win) were pioneers in the field.

Multidata Systems International

A software product of the company was involved in an accidental overexposure of patients in Panama in 2001 when the treatment planning software RTP/2 (vers. 2.11, 1991) reportedly contributed to 28 patients receiving excessive amounts of radiation at the Instituto Oncologico Nacional in Panama City.

Negative cutting

The negative cutter will translate the Timecode in the EDL list to edge numbers (keykode) using specially designed negative cutting software to find which shot is needed from the rushes negative.

Nextgen

NextGen Healthcare Information Systems develops software and systems to the healthcare industry

OpenVMS

Roger Gourd was the project lead for the Starlet program, with software engineers Dave Cutler (who would later lead development of Microsoft's Windows NT), Dick Hustvedt, and Peter Lippman acting as the technical project leaders, each having responsibility for a different area of the operating system.

Petrosoft

Fuel-Central® -- Jobber software designed to schedule hundreds of runs weeks in advance and in real time.

Polish Wikipedia

Additionally, the software used on the DVD worked improperly on Microsoft Windows 98.

Project Management Institute

# User Stories Applied:For Agile Software Development, Mike Cohn ISBN#0321205685

Protect Software

It also offers special distribution solutions for software previews and Film screening that utilize Digital watermarking technology to track content.

SAPIEN Technologies, Inc.

Group Telein wrote the software in Turbo Pascal, eventually moving their operations from their individual residences to an office in downtown Berkeley, California.

Sherwood C. Spring

His technical assignments have included software verification at the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory and Flight Simulation Laboratory; vehicle and satellite integration at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, for STS-5, 6, 7, 8, and 9; Astronaut Office EVA (Extra-vehicular activity) expert; and Space Station construction, EVA maintenance, and design.

Shooter game

Notable examples of the genre include Ubisoft's Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon series and Bohemia Software's Operation Flashpoint.

Simulations Plus

As of February 15, 2013, all of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies, along with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) license the company's 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.

Sony Ericsson W350i

The phone also has Internet software including RSS, a Web browser, WAP 2.0 XHTML, WAP 1.2.1, Web feeds, Access NetFront Web Browser and email.

Techvedic

Techvedic entered into the business partnerships with software vendors like AVG, Intuit, Microsoft, etc., and leading OEMs including Dell and HP to become the authorized reseller of their products.

Testdroid

Testdroid can use testing frameworks, such as Robotium, cisimple, and uiautomator for native and Selenium for web applications, targeted for mobile application and game developers.

TigerDirect

The company was founded as Tiger Software, a publisher of titles for both Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh in 1989.

Uberdata

Uberdata (also known as Überdata or Uber data) is a ROM editing software designed specifically for On Board Diagnostics (OBD) Honda Engine control units.

UML

Unified Modeling Language, an object modeling and specification language used in software engineering

Utah Valley

Novell and WordPerfect were instrumental in making the Utah Valley a focus for software development.

Vistaprint

In 2008, Vistaprint announced a strategic partnership with Intuit, a supplier of accounting software, tying their service into Intuit's QuickBooks software using an Intuit-branded web site.

Web browser engine

A web browser engine (sometimes called layout engine or rendering engine) is a software component that takes marked up content (such as HTML, XML, image files, etc.) and formatting information (such as CSS, XSL, etc.) and displays the formatted content on the screen.

Workspace.com

In March 2001, Citrix Systems agreed to purchase Sequoia Software for $185 million.

XXYYXX

He is most notable for gaining a prominence within the indie music culture, despite his young age and experimental lo-fi music, which he made in his bedroom with FL Studio and software from Ableton.

Zero day

Zero-day attack, exploitation of unpatched software vulnerabilities

Zeus Technology

In 2004 Zeus Technology released Zeus Traffic Manager (originally 'Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager', ZXTM), based on Zeus' earlier Zeus Load Balancer product, a software load balancer for TCP and UDP based network protocols, and based on a previous Zeus Load Balancer product.