AVS/Express Web Edition Named as a Top 10 Software Product of 1996 by IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications Magazine.WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 14, 1997-- Advanced Visual Systems Inc. (AVS (Audio Video Coding Standard) A video compression technique developed by Chinese companies and supported by the Chinese government. Expected to provide better compression than MPEG-2, AVS was created to avoid paying royalties to the MPEG licensors, which are outside ) today announced that its AVS/Express Web Edition product was named as one of the top 10 software products of 1996 by editors of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. Computer Graphics and Applications magazine. "We are extremely happy to accept this acknowledgment from this prestigious publication and its editors," said Gary Farner, Vice President of Marketing for AVS. Farner added that, "we accept this endorsement as confirming the Web direction that we're moving our visualization products toward." AVS/Express, first introduced in 1994, is a multi-platform development environment that lets users easily build interactive multidimensional visualization capabilities into new or existing applications. Using a unique object-oriented visual programming paradigm A programming paradigm is a fundamental style of programming regarding how solutions to problems are to be formulated in a programming language. (Compare with a methodology, which is a style of solving specific software engineering problems). , users can quickly assemble components from proven GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. , graphics and visualization libraries using a "drag-and-drop" interface, eliminating time-consuming programming in traditional 3GL and 4GL environments. AVS/Express is available in both developer and end user versions. AVS/Express Web Edition, announced in August of 1996, uses Virtual Reality Modeling Language-2 (VRML-2) to deliver detail-rich, sophisticated 3D visualizations across the Web in a matter of seconds. The Web Edition consists of the Data Publisher, Scene Publisher, and Application Publisher. The Data Publisher allows AVS/Express data to be read and written across the Internet. The Scene and Application publishers are used to enhance the user's options for viewing and manipulating scenes, giving the desktop client the same control over scenes as a user on a much more expensive workstation using a specialized application. Developers can also use the Application Publisher to construct user interfaces with Java User Interface Controls. The company also recently announced a Web Edition for its popular Gsharp software for producing 2D and 3D graphs. Using Gsharp on a Web server, web page visitors can view publication-quality graphs, produce graphs on demand from data they select, and drill down on graphs to see finer levels of detail. Graphs are generated as web-compliant images and Java applets, viewable from any standard web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . About Advanced Visual Systems Advanced Visual Systems Inc. is the leading supplier of "visual intelligence" development tools and end-user software that transform large amounts of complex data into 2D and 3D visual information. The company's products deliver insight and competitive advantage to customers in the technical, scientific, and commercial "data mining" markets, including medical imaging, engineering, geospatial application development, oil and gas, aerospace, government research, telecommunications, and financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. . The company's products run on Windows 95, Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. , all major UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). workstations, and are supported on the Internet with the release of AVS/Express Web Edition and Gsharp Web Edition. Advanced Visual Systems distributes its products through a direct sales force in the U.S., through subsidiaries in Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom, and through distributors in numerous other countries. KGT KGT Key Generator Transmitter KGT Klingon for the Galactic Traveller Inc. in Japan oversees sales and distribution channels for the company's products in the Pacific Rim Pacific Rim, term used to describe the nations bordering the Pacific Ocean and the island countries situated in it. In the post–World War II era, the Pacific Rim has become an increasingly important and interconnected economic region. . -0- AVS/Express is a registered trademark, and AVS and Gsharp are trademarks, of Advanced Visual Systems Inc. All other product names are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective holders. CONTACT: Bernie Buelow Advanced Visual Systems Inc. 617-890-4300, ext. 2265 E-mail: bbuelow@avs.com http://www.avs.com |
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