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Published Date: Jan. 17, 1997
Company Name: Extempo Systems Inc.
Address: 2540 Mission College Boulevard
Santa Clara, Calif. 95054
Main Telephone
Number: 408/562-7958
Chief Executive
Officer: Barbara Hayes-Roth
Investor Relations
Contact: Barbara Hayes-Roth
Business number: 408/562-7958
e-mail address: bhr@extempo.com
Public Relations
Contact: Keith Wescourt
Business number: 408/562-7958
Home number: 415/851-4440
e-mail address: wescourt@extempo.com
URL Address: http://www.extempo.com
Industry: Computer software and services for interactive
entertainment, education and consumer commerce
Company description: Extempo Systems' mission is to bring interactive products to life with directable, improvisational, synthetic characters. Extempo Imp Character(TM) software products and services offer new capabilities to developers of interactive products for entertainment, education and consumer commerce. Imp Characters can be used as autonomous actors or as avatars or puppets, directed in real-time by product users or other software. They play functional and entertaining roles, in which their behavior varies dynamically based on their enduring personalities, their current objectives, directions and moods, and the current situation. Extempo offers stock character products, character customization tools, and services for custom character development and integration. These products and services exploit several proprietary software technologies: Imp Engine(TM) which provides the runtime environment A configuration of hardware and software. It includes the CPU type, operating system and any runtime engines or system software required by a particular category of applications. See runtime engine. for the "minds" of Imp Characters and the APIs for integrating them with other product components; Imp Talk(TM) which enables characters to converse through chat software; and LiveComics(TM) which enables characters to express actions and moods through dynamically changing graphic images. Extempo technologies use a component software architecture that enables Imp products to be integrated easily with other software and to be configured for either stand-alone or networked application. Located in Santa Clara Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Extempo was founded in 1995 by Barbara Hayes-Roth, who is well known for over a decade of sponsored R&D on intelligent agent software at Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. . Extempo is a privately held corporation Noun 1. privately held corporation - a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market close corporation, closed corporation, private corporation , with additional financial support from competitive awards by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the State of California. CONTACT: Extempo Systems Inc. |
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