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Informal
Software appoints Gregg Weissman as Vice President of Engineering
September
2000 - Informal Software, creators of enotate the software
solution which fundamentally changes the way people communicate
and share ideas electronically, has appointed Gregg Weissman as
vice president of engineering. He brings sixteen years of achievement
and leadership in software engineering and venture start-ups to
the company. enotate enables handheld devices such as Palm™
and other personal digital assistants (PDAs) to become the electronic
equivalent of pen and paper.Gregg Weissman will be responsible for
making Informal's software an everyday part of the mobile and desktop
computing experience. He intends to build worldwide engineering
and development teams, to ensure that Informal Software's technologies
have a global presence. Weissman said "Historically, working
with computers has been restrictive because we haven't had the ability
to spontaneously express our thoughts and ideas. enotate changes
this as it allows you to sketch, draw and annotate electronic pictures,
Word documents, and PowerPoint presentations in a natural and informal
manner."
Gregg
Weissman joins Informal Software from Spyrus, where he was technical
director for four years. He was responsible for developing high
security storage encryption products for Microsoft Windows and was
a key part of a team redesigning the US National Security Agency's
(NSA) Fortezza encryption architecture for use across a wide variety
of applications including e-mail, communications and document files.
Gregg Weissman has a long history of successfully introducing a
number of new technologies to market. In 1986, as a general partner
for E-X-E Software Systems, he developed award winning utilities
and security software for the then new IBM PC and its PC-DOS operating
system. This was rated 'most secure subsystem' by the US Government's
Orange-Book, a publication which provides guidelines for evaluating
security levels for computer systems.
Between
1992 and 1994, he designed and implemented Phoenix Technologies'
PC Card Manager PCMCIA Card Services which was shipped on Toshiba,
IBM and other laptops from major vendors. In 1995, Gregg also developed
and implemented intelligent configuration software for Xircom PC
Cards. This had a major impact on the industry at the time because,
prior to this, no one had successfully designed or implemented a
system for resolving PC Card configuration conflicts using Artificial
Intelligence techniques.
Ian Cullimore, president and CEO of Informal Software, said: "I
am delighted to be working with Gregg as we've known each other
since the early 1990s. Gregg has a real commitment to creating products
which allow people to be creative with their computers and has the
technical expertise and foresight to deliver."
Commenting
on his appointment, Gregg Weissman says: "Every technologist
and software designer wants the opportunity to make brand new technology
happen. enotate™ represents our first venture into making
the informal interface part of everyday computing and it's a truly
innovative product allowing users to mark up documents in real time.
It links PDAs far more closely into the desktop, in effect turning
them into the '4th peripheral', alongside the keyboard, monitor
and mouse. Innovation like this is what Informal Software is all
about and it's a delight to join the team."
About
Informal Software
Informal Software provides innovative software solutions that enable
a stylus-based device, such as a Palm, to be used as a direct PC
input/output device alongside the traditional keyboard, mouse, and
display. Unlike pen tablets, drawing/sketching software packages
or other pen-based computing solutions, Informal Software's unique
'Informal Interface' allows these stylus-based devices to interact
naturally with a personal computer in a manner analogous to pen
and paper. Informal Software's enotate allows PC-based electronic
documents, sketches, and/or digital photos/drawings to be 'marked
up' and/or annotated in real-time, directly from a stylus-based
device. In addition, enotate allows initial concepts such as informal
sketches, layouts, drawings, maps, etc. to be expressed in a natural
fashion on an electronic medium.
With enotate, users will for the first time, be able to naturally
and intuitively represent and communicate electronically the true
'gist' of information, messages, thoughts and statements using a
digital document or image. Informal Software is headquartered in
Santa Clara, California, with research and development carried out
in the UK.
For more information about Informal Software and enotate, visit
the web site at www.informal.com
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