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Sybase Inc. is joining other database vendors in branching out into tools for client-server application development. Earlier this year the Emeryville, Calif., company acquired Gain Technology of Palo Alto, Calif., […]

Fed scientists praise multiplatform, user-friendly LabView as analysis and development tool Scientific analysis programs generally aren't very user-friendly. But scientists who use LabView will tell you it doesn't have to […]

A new translation tool that changes code in one programming language to another looks promising, federal testers say, though it can't cure all their software woes. The tool translates code […]

Until recently, few agencies outside the Defense Department relied on the Standard Generalized Markup Language's structures and conventions for manipulating large documents. Now, however, new workstation tools are appearing that […]

If the Jetsons had what NASA has today, Rosie the mechanical maid might have been a little more high-tech. Two divisions of NASA's Ames Research Center are beta testing a […]

Software developers in NASA's Kennedy Space Center have produced major applications with Symbolics Inc.'s Genera development environment, saying it has the best facilities for producing prototypes in Common Lisp. James […]

More than 15 federal gencies use a graphical user interface builder that NASA craated and supported for the tool's low cost and extraordinary support. Transportable Applications Environment Plus, a portable […]

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is using a conceptual modeling and database engineering tool to standardize Navy ship design. The project is part of the agency's plan to […]

Oracle Corp. has announced new computer-aided software engineering tools based on the latest upgrade of its multiuser repository product. The new version of Oracle's CASE*Dictionary product lets users tailor the […]

Responding to a request from a major Army command, Texas Instruments Inc. has added Ada programming capabilities to its major computer-aided software engineering product. TI will develop an Ada code […]

Gensym Corp. of Cambridge, Mass., has introduced Version 3.0 of G2, its software environment for building and deploying real-time expert systems. The latest version of the product is much faster, […]

TeleSoft has announced an Ada development environment specifically for high-performance RISC workstations. RISCAda includes an optimizing compiler, a set of Ada programming tools based on a graphical user interface and […]

A program that helps software engineers better understand the structure and detailed components of their C source code has been released by Procase Corp. Smartsystem from the Santa Clara, Calif., […]

NWS System Shows Rain and River Data Graphically The National Weather Service is developing a prototype for a new river forecasting system using an interactive graphical user interface. Systems engineers […]

Cadre Has New Tools to Team With CASE Product Cadre Technologies has introduced several tools to complement the newest release of its computer-aided software engineering product. The recently announced Teamwork […]

Reusable Software Goal of Agencies' New Partnership A small company specializing in software engineering has persuaded two federal agencies to develop computer systems in tandem, a concept that all parties […]

Analysis Tool Assists Navy in Reverse Engineering The Naval Air Systems Command is using an automated code analysis tool to assist in reverse engineering and maintaining existing software. Logiscope by […]

AI Product Creates Ada, Unix Bridge BOSTON -- IntelliCorp Inc. has announced a product combining a Unix artificial intelligence development and run-time software into what a federal official called 'a […]

Programmers at the Alaskan Command have the daunting job of moving custom C and C++ programs from Apple Macintosh and Digital Equipment Corp. hosts over to a Posix-compliant networked environment […]

A new software development and maintenance tool called Paraset can both forward-and reverse-engineer existing code in C and C++. Paraset, from Software Emancipation Technology Inc. of Waltham, Mass., establishes and […]

Unix multimedia tools for non-programmers were in short supply until Digital Equipment Corp. brought out its MediaImpact software for the RISC Ultrix DECstation. The Library of Congress has beta tested […]

KnowledgeWare Inc. will have a set of computer-aided software engineering tools for Unix ready by June. The Atlanta company's Application Development Workbench for Unix is designed for client-server environments, company […]

An interface builder for Ada applications can make it easier for users to work with large-scale database management systems. Ada Workbench, a joint venture of Sybase Inc. of Berkeley, Calif., […]

The Air Force's Advanced Artificial Intelligence Technology Testbed (AAITT), now in its final year of development, will help mission planners integrate knowledge-based systems with conventional databases and simulations. The test […]

A new version of a configuration-management program for Unix software can define 'relationship verbs' to track the change histories of important software relationships. Version 8 of Aide-de-Camp from Software Maintenance […]

ORLANDO -- Announced at Tri-Ada here, MP/Ada 6.2 from Silicon Graphics Inc. can map Ada tasks one-to-one with Posix threads and generate Ada-based graphical user interfaces. The MP/Ada tool set, […]

ORLANDO, Fla.--InQuisix, a software reuse library tool developed concurrently for NASA and the Army, made its commercial debut at TriAda here. Software Productivity Solutions Inc. of Melbourne, Fla., developed the […]

One of a number of client-server introductions at the recent Unix Expo gives users of the TextMachine text database the power to distribute session managers and search servers. TextMachine, from […]

Configuration management software alerts programmers when something has gone awry in a big system and also maintains a history of code changes. Without it, 'each programmer would have to take […]

An application development tool designed to make Ada code easier to write might be the tool of choice in many Defense Department projects even if it were not virtually the […]

A software development system that reads all variants of C and C ++ source code will validate compliance to the Posix specification. Abraxas Software Inc. of Portland, Ore., has released […]

The Air Force has accepted a Posix-compatible Ada programming environment for use on Desktop III Unix systems. The Desktop III contractor, Unisys Corp., was required to supply Ada for both […]

Natural Language Inc.'s new version of its English-based querying tool features a reworked graphical user interface wtih pulldown windows and an enhanced development environment. Natural Language 5.0 also features changes […]

The Agriculture Department's research arm uses C++ developer, debugger and error-detection software to help simulate the growth of the cotton crop. Analysts at the USDA's Agriculture Research Center in Albany, […]

Computer Associates International Inc. has announced CA-CobolVision, a Cobol analysis tool for Windows that runs on IBM Corp. mainframes under MVS and VSE. The tool uses cooperative processing techniques and […]

Non-technical users of Ingres Corp.'s relational database management system at the Joint Chiefs of Staff have an easier time when using the company's windows fourth-generation language product, a JCS official […]

Two Defense divisions are using an object-oriented expert system to track physical objects. The Army Material Command and the Naval Supply Systems Command use the Aion Development System (ADS), a […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Digital Equipment Corp. has announced a new Ada compilation system for Unix and a software engineering environment developed for the aerospace and defense industry. Both announcements […]

Servio Corp. has introduced the GemStone Object Database Development Environment (Geode), a group of development tools that will allow application developers to build object-oriented financial, scientific and manufacturing systems. The […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Ada software specialist Rational has introduced analysis and design software for developers of object-oriented applications. Announced at the Tri-Ada conference here last week, Rational Rose allows […]

New CD-ROM development and retrieval software will help the U.S. Information Agency automate drug information for use at overseas libraries. Librarians at USIA's Washington headquarters soon will begin using CD […]

Uniras Inc. has introduced Agx/Toolmaster, a set of programming tools that can be integrated for numeric data visualization and presentatio0n for the X Window environment. The product's graphics tools allow […]

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Software introduced at the American Association for Artifical Intelligence conference allows users to build knowledge-based systems on a foundation of case histories. Until now, most knowledge-based systems […]

TeleSoft has announced a new version of TeleUse, its graphical user interface tool. Version 2.0 will be able to generate C code and code of the Open Software Foundation's user […]

A small Santa Cruz, Calif., company has developed a program that lets users build personalized graphical user interfaces. Tigre Object Systems has introduced Tigre, an object-oriented system that lets users […]

A software metrics tool recently introduced offers a standard way for the Defense Department to measure software quality. Software Quality Tools Corp. has targeted its first product toward the defense […]

KnowledgeMan, Guru Get New Features SAN FRANCISCO -- Micro Data Base Systems Inc. announced new versions of KnowledgeMan and Guru at DB/Expo last month. KnowledgeMan 3.0, an integrated information management […]

Development System Integrates Ada, Real-Time Tools TeleSoft has introduced an integrated Ada development system with components for high-speed tasking, including a variety of productivity tools in a real-time execution environment. […]

Saber-C Debugger Captures Government's Interest Saber Software Inc., a small Cambridge, Mass., software company, has introduced a source-level debugger for C on Unix work-stations. The company's Saber-C is a C […]

Lisp Tools Create Merlin's Knowledge Researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M., have developed a distributed knowledge representation system using Lisp tools. John Bremser, a scientist […]