Tom Sawyer Software
Tom Sawyer Software is a software company that provides products used to build graph and data visualization and social network analysis applications. Organizations use these applications to understand relationships, trends, and patterns in complex data sets in order to recognize emerging opportunities and threats. Tom Sawyer Software products are used by organizations in telecommunications, financial services, energy, engineering design, defense and intelligence, healthcare and life sciences, networking, enterprise software, and manufacturing.
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| Industry | Computer Software |
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| Founded | Berkeley (1992) |
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| Website | www.tomsawyer.com |
The company was founded in 1992, and is headquartered in Berkeley, California, with development facilities throughout Australia, Europe, Israel, and North America.
Products
Tom Sawyer Software offers API library-based Software Development Kits (SDKs) and graphics-based design software (IDEs) to provide application development teams with a high degree of flexibility .
The API-based products include Tom Sawyer Visualization, Tom Sawyer Layout, and Tom Sawyer Analysis. These products are available on several software platforms and enable extended customization .
[Tom Sawyer Perspectives, a graphics-based product, exploits a project-based approach to facilitate design sharing and reuse, isolation from technology change, independence from software platforms , and decoupling from data sources for greater flexibility.
Awards
Tom Sawyer Software won the following awards:
- 2011 Red Herring 100 Global Award, Finalist.[1]
- Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project Grant Winner, "Visual Interaction Methods for Clustered Graphs" (11-13), 2011.[2]
- 2011 Red Herring 100 North America Award, Finalist.[3]
- U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Grant Finalist, "Graph Analysis Technology" Advanced Technology Program (ATP) grant (00-09) Component Based Software Technology Development, 2000.[4]
- U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Grant Winner, "Graph Visualization Technology" Advanced Technology Program (ATP) grant (95-09) Component Based Software Technology Development, 1995.[5]
Staff Awards
The Tom Sawyer Software staff won the following awards:
- The 45th International Mathematical Olympiad, 2004, Bronze Medal
- The 16th International Olympiad in Informatics, 2004, Silver Medal
- The 15th International Olympiad in Informatics, 2003, Bronze Medal
- The 44th International Mathematical Olympiad, 2003, Bronze Medal
- The 43rd International Mathematical Olympiad, 2002, Bronze Medal
- Award for Distinguished Scientific Publication, Ministry of Science and Education, Poland, 1998.
- A German University Award, First Place, "1998 Distinguished University Doctoral Dissertation."
- National Award, Australian Computer Science Association, First Place, "1997 Distinguished Ph.D. Dissertation in Computer Science."
- An Australian University Award, First Place, "1997 University Medal and Dean's Medal for Honour's Degree Research."
- Central-European Olympiad in Informatics, 1997, Gold Medal
- The 9th International Olympiad in Informatics, 1997, Silver Medal
- The 8th International Olympiad in Informatics, 1996, Bronze Medal
- National Award, German Computer Science Society, First Place, "1996 Distinguished Ph.D. Dissertation in Computer Science."
- Multimedia Transfer 1995, Final Round Participant, "3-D Visualization of Discrete Data Structures."