Kitware
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| Industry | Computer software, Large Data Visualization, Biomedical Imaging, Quality Software Process, Informatics, Data Publishing, Computer Vision, Open Source |
| Founded | New York (1998) |
| Headquarters | Clifton Park, New York, USA |
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Number of locations
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Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Lyon,France |
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Key people
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Will Schroeder, President & CEO Ken Martin, Chairman & CFO Charles Law, VP Strategic Growth Lisa Avila, VP Commercial Operations Bill Hoffman, VP and CTO Rick Avila, Sr. Director of Healthcare Solutions Stephen Aylward, Director of Medical Imaging Berk Geveci, Director of Scientific Computing Anthony Hoogs, Director of Computer Vision |
| Products | High-performance computing, visualization and storage |
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Number of employees
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105 (2013) |
| Website | www.kitware.com |
Kitware, Inc. is a technology company headquartered in Clifton Park, New York. The company specializes in the research and development of open-source software in the fields of computer vision, medical imaging, visualization, 3D data publishing and technical software development. In addition to software development, the company offers other products and services such as books, technical support, consulting and customized training courses.
The company was founded in 1998 by Will Schroeder, Ken Martin, Lisa Avila, Charles Law and Bill Hoffman to support the Visualization Toolkit (VTK). VTK was initially created in 1993 by Will, Ken and Bill Lorensen as companion software to “The Visualization Toolkit: An Object-Oriented Approach to 3D Graphics,” originally published by Prentice-Hall. As VTK was released open source, a user community developed around the software and the founders of Kitware took this opportunity to start the business. With time, the company expanded its focus and offerings to include development in other areas such as biomedical imaging, large data visualization, quality software process, informatics, and data management.
Kitware is one of the fastest growing companies in the country, having been included on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing companies for the past three years:
The consistent growth of the company has enabled the opening of three additional offices. The Chapel Hill, North Carolina office opened in 2005, Kitware SAS, the European office, opened in 2010 in Lyon, France and the Santa Fe, New Mexico office opened in 2012.
Kitware actively contributes to and maintains several leading Open Source software packages, including:
Kitware contributes to the fields of scientific visualization, medical imaging, computer vision, data management, and informatics. The company employs an agile development process to create high-quality software.
Recent publications highlighting the company's work include:
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