Company:Design Science
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| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Software Industry |
| Founded | 1986 |
| Headquarters | Long Beach, California and Barcelona, Spain |
Key people | Robert Karmelich, Chief Executive Officer |
| Products | |
| Website | wiris |
Design Science, Inc. is a US-based software company whose products allow editing and display of mathematical notation, mostly on the basis of MathML.
Overview
Design Science is the developer of MathType, MathFlow, MathPlayer and MathDaisy. These products are used by scientists, engineers, educators and publishing professionals, for authoring and publishing mathematical notation in print and online documents.[citation needed]
DSI also licenses technology for OEM partners to math-enable their own products. It researches new products and technologies around the topic of MathML.
History
- 1990 - licensed Equation Editor to Microsoft; formerly included in all copies of Microsoft Office worldwide.
- 2000 - acquired the WebEQ software line from The Geometry Center for authoring and presenting MathML on the world wide web.
- 2002 - released MathPlayer, enabling Internet Explorer to process MathML content, including accessibility related issues. MathPlayer allows MathML content to be spoken aloud by a screen reader or magnified.
- 2003 - released MathFlow 1.0 for editing, display, and accessibility of mathematical notation for XML publishing professionals.
- 2009
- Released MathDaisy, an application that works with Microsoft's Save As DAISY add-in, and MathType to save documents in the DAISY Digital Talking Book format with accessible math
- MathType Mac integration with Apple Inc. iWork '09
- Released MathType 6.6 for Windows
- 2017 Maths for More, makers of WIRIS (and also known with this name), acquires Design Science through an investor, Inveready Technology Investment Group.[2][third-party source needed]
Products
- MathType - Create mathematical notation for word processing, web pages, desktop publishing, presentations, for TeX, LaTeX, and MathML documents. Also works with hundreds of other applications to work with mathematical notation.
- MathFlow - Provides editing, display, and accessibility of mathematical notation for websites, applications, and services.
- MathPlayer - A MathML display engine for Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser.
- MathDaisy - Save documents in the DAISY Digital Talking Book format with accessible math.
- WebEQ Developers Suite - A Java toolkit that uses MathML to build dynamic web pages that interact with the reader. WebEQ was originally developed at The Geometry Center.
References
- ↑ "Design Science, Inc.". Archived from the original on August 19, 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20070819231042/http://company.monster.com/dscience/. Retrieved 2008-01-28.
- ↑ https://www.dessci.com/en/company/press/releases/170919.htm
- Foster, K.R. (December 2001). "Mathtype 5 with mathML for the WWW". IEEE Spectrum 38 (12): 64. doi:10.1109/MSPEC.2001.969610.
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