Aprisa Inc. Unveils Online Community for Engineers at theCubicle.com.Business Editors WESTLAKE Westlake, city (1990 pop. 27,018), Cuyahoga co., NE Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland; inc. as a city 1956. A growing city, its various manufactures include ink and plastics. VILLAGE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 6, 2001 Web-based engineering service provider Aprisa Inc. today launched Sockets Online Community(TM) (SOC (System On a Chip) The electronics for a complete, working product contained on a single chip. While a microcontroller includes all the hardware components required to process instructions, an SoC includes the computer and all required ancillary electronics. ), a virtual gathering place for engineers and technical professionals to learn, play, and exchange information and ideas in real time. Aprisa will host SOC at its engineer-focused site, www.theCubicle.com. In addition to offering engineers a peer-based Web site to congregate con·gre·gate tr. & intr.v. con·gre·gat·ed, con·gre·gat·ing, con·gre·gates To bring or come together in a group, crowd, or assembly. See Synonyms at gather. adj. 1. Gathered; assembled. 2. , chat and network, SOC will regularly host live events such as seminars, online courses and interviews with industry luminaries and leading technical authorities. "At Aprisa, we have always been focused entirely on creating tools for engineers. That is the goal of our design application, CircuitNet, and it is the goal of our Web site, theCubicle.com," said Amanda (language) Amanda - A functional programming language derived mostly from Miranda with some small changes. Amanda was written by Dick Bruin and implemented on MS-DOS and NeXT. It is available as an interperator only. Parrish, Aprisa's manager and creative director for SOC. "Sockets Online Community is the next logical step in Aprisa's evolution as a developer of tools and services for engineers -- it is a place where engineers can meet over the Web, talk shop, play games and get ideas from their peers and inspire one another." Aprisa's first live event, a chat session hosted by creators of the syndicated, engineering-oriented comic strip comic strip, combination of cartoon with a story line, laid out in a series of pictorial panels across a page and concerning a continuous character or set of characters, whose thoughts and dialogues are indicated by means of "balloons" containing written speech. "Capers," will be held on April 13. Aprisa will regularly announce upcoming events at Sockets Online Community at www.theCubicle.com. For information about hosting a live event or other information about SOC, contact Amanda Parrish at 805/495-8177, ext. 236, or aparrish@theCubicle.com. About Aprisa Inc. Aprisa Inc., home of theCubicle.com, is a Web-based engineering service provider whose mission is to speed product to market by enabling a fast and thorough design discovery process. Aprisa applies its patent-pending rules-based search engine and discovery environment to theCubicle.com to allow electronics engineers to conceptualize con·cep·tu·al·ize v. con·cep·tu·al·ized, con·cep·tu·al·iz·ing, con·cep·tu·al·iz·es v.tr. To form a concept or concepts of, and especially to interpret in a conceptual way: designs, and find, evaluate and select mission-critical technology. Aprisa is based in Westlake Village. For more information, visit www.theCubicle.com. |
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