'Intermetrics, Inc.' was a
software company founded in
Cambridge,
Massachusetts in
1969 by several veterans of
M.I.T.'s Instrumentation Laboratory who had worked on the software for
NASA's
Apollo Program including the
Apollo Guidance Computer.
The company specialized in
compiler technology. It was responsible for the design and implementation of the
HAL/S programming language. It participated in the design effort leading to the
Ada programming language effort, designed the Red language, one of the finalists in the design competition, and wrote one of the first production-quality Ada compilers. The large-scale Ada 95 revision of the language was designed at Intermetrics.
Intermetrics merged with
Whitesmiths Ltd. in December
1988. In
1997, Intermetrics merged with
computer game developer
Looking Glass Studios [1]. In
1998, Intermetrics acquired
Pacer Infotec, and changed its name to 'AverStar'. AverStar merged with the
Titan Corporation in March,
2000; Titan was acquired by
L-3 Communications in
2005.
Its Internet
domain name was inmet.com.
External links
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A history of Intermetrics, some subjective notes on Intermetrics in the 70's and 80's.
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Fourth conference - Intermetrics part of the Apollo Guidance Computer History Project.