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Published Date: Sept. 12, 1997
Company Name: Extempo Systems Inc.
Address: 650 Saratoga Ave.
San Jose, Calif. 95129-2057
Main Telephone
Number: 408/557-6758
Main Fax
Number: 408/557-6791
Chief Executive
Officer: Barbara Hayes-Roth
Investor Relations
Contact: Barbara Hayes-Roth
Business number: 408/557-6758
e-mail address: bhr@extempo.com
Public Relations
Contact: Keith Wescourt
Business number: 408/557-6758
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 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. 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 (logic) converse - The truth of a proposition of the form A => B and its converse B => A are shown in the following truth table: A B | A => B B => A ------+---------------- f f | t t f t | t f t f | f t t t | t t 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 con·fig·ure tr.v. con·fig·ured, con·fig·ur·ing, con·fig·ures To design, arrange, set up, or shape with a view to specific applications or uses: for either stand-alone (jargon) stand-alone - Capable of operating without other programs, libraries, computers, hardware, networks, etc. Exactly what is absent is presumed to be obvious from context. "We only run Windows on stand-alone PCs because it's too dangerous to run it on networked ones." or networked application. Located in San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , 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 California (kăl'ĭfôr`nyə), most populous state in the United States, located in the Far West; bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada and, across the Colorado River, Arizona (E), Mexico (S), and the Pacific Ocean (W). . CONTACT: Extempo Systems Inc. |
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