Intermetrics
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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.
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 effort, designed the Red language, one of the finalists in the design competition, and wrote one of the first production-quality Ada compilers. Ada 95 was designed at Intermetrics.
Intermetrics merged with Whitesmiths Ltd. in December 1988. In 1997, Intermetrics merged with computer game developer Looking Glass Studios [link]. 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 original Internet domain name was inmet.com.
External links
- [A history of Intermetrics], some subjective notes on Intermetrics in the 70's and 80's.
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