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Fifth Generation Systems. Fifth Generation Systems, Inc., was a computer security company founded October 1984 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States by Robert Mitchell, Leroy Mitchell, Roger Ivey, and Bruce Ray.  All four later left the company after it was acquired by Barry Bellue who was accused by the founders of fraud and continued theft from company accounts for illegal personal use. Fifth Generation's initial commercial product was FastBack, an early competitor to The Norton Backup from Symantec.

Fifth Generation Systems software
 CopyDoubler (Mac) – system utility for speeding up file copies and managing file copy queues
 DiskDoubler (Mac) – on-the-fly hard drive compression software
 DiskLock (PC, Mac) – security software incorporating access control and encryption
 FastBack (PC, Mac) – hard disk backup utility
 PowerStation (Mac)
 Public Utilities (Mac) – software with disk optimization, repair, and data recovery functions, developed by Sentient Software
 Pyro! (Mac) – screensaver that displayed fireworks among other user-selectable displays
 Search&Destroy (PC) – online and offline virus scanner for DOS and Windows, included in Novell DOS 7
 Suitcase (Mac) – font management utility
 Super Laser Spool and Super Spool (Mac) – print spoolers, acquired from Supermac Technology in 1990
 Direct Access – a menu system software for DOS.

The company was acquired by Symantec on October 4, 1993, for US$53.8 million.

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Defunct software companies of the United States
Companies based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
American companies established in 1984
Software companies established in 1984
Software companies disestablished in 1993
1984 establishments in Louisiana
1993 disestablishments in Louisiana
Gen Digital acquisitions
Fast Track, Inc.. Fast Track, Inc., was a software development company in the United States. It was founded by Robert H. Nichols in 1987 in Germantown, Maryland. The company was primarily known for its distributed network management products, primarily Exposé, which is cross-compatible with servers running VINES, NetWare, and Windows NT. It collects information from the services through the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). Version 3 in 1994 introduced SuperMIB, a graphical framework for representing nodes in the network.

In March 1996, Symantec acquired Fast Track for US$7.22 million worth of stock. The acquisition gave Symantec their first codebase based on SNMP, which they promptly integrated into the Premier Edition of Norton Administrator Suite, their second stab at a network management product, in September 1996. This version of Norton Administrator Suite was met with mixed reception and poor adoption from customers, and by March 1997 Symantec had divested parts of Fast Track to other software companies.

References

Defunct software companies of the United States
Gen Digital acquisitions
ON Technology. ON Technology Corporation was a software company in the United States. Formed in 1987  by Mitch Kapor after his departure from Lotus Software, the initial business plan of the company was to build an object-oriented PC desktop environment providing a variety of applications.  In (roughly) the early 1990s, the company was acquired by Notework Corporation, a vendor of LAN email systems. Although the merged company was now managed by the Notework Corporation, the company still retained the ON Technology name (which new management perceived had more cache/brand.)

Following its acquisition by Notework Corporation, ON Technology proceeded to expand its product line through a series of small product/company acquisitions, including email software (DaVinci, a message handling system-based email product), antivirus technology, corporate Internet usage monitoring, IP firewall, and desktop systems management.

In 1995, the company went public, providing additional structural methods to perform most of the product acquisitions listed above.

The company distinguished itself through its go-to-market model, incorporating a 30-day free trial alongside significant marketing and telesales to reach a large number of small to medium-sized customers.

In 1998, the company restructured its operations and sold off its "free-trial" small/medium business products to Elron Software. It retained "enterprise-sized" products (the MeetingMaker calendaring product and the ON Command CCM desktop systems management product) which it sold using a more traditional enterprise software business model.

ON divested its Meeting Maker product in a private transaction to a private investor, who later sold the technology to PeopleCube. The only remaining technology at this point was the systems management software, then branded as "CCM."

ON was acquired by Symantec on October 27, 2003. to assist Symantec's move into the desktop systems management business.

References

Defunct software companies of the United States
Gen Digital acquisitions

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Innis Dye Works. The former Innis Dye Works factory is located along North Water Street in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States, on a triangular lot between the street, Fall Kill and the railroad tracks of the Metro-North Hudson Line, just across from the Mid-Hudson Discovery Museum. It has served a variety of industrial functions, and remains in good condition today.

It is a three-story, twelve-bay structure with a raised basement. At the roofline is a projecting cornice and frieze with large carved brackets. A triangular pediment in the center gives the year of its construction, 1880. There is a wooden hoist at the center of the second story and the main entrance is a double door with vertical planking.

The Innis Dye Works company dates to at least the 1830s. The first record of its existence, in 1838, is founder Aaron Innis's transfer of the company to his son George, later a three-time mayor of the city. The building itself was used for pulverizing and storage of materials to be made into dyes. It is shown on an 1887 map of the city.

At the end of the century the building outlived its original purpose when the traditional dye industry gave way to aniline-based mixtures. By 1913 it would be reused as the David H. Schmidt Piano Hammer factory, whose name is still visible on the facade between the second and third stories. It was converted back to dyemaking again by 1934; since then it has been used as a warehouse. It was nominated for listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, consistent with the requirements for listing described in a 1980 study of historic resources in Poughkeepsie, and it received NRHP reference number 82005072, but was not in fact listed due to owner's objection.

In 2008, it underwent conversion into condominiums.

References

Buildings and structures in Poughkeepsie, New York
Industrial buildings completed in 1880
Dyes
1880 establishments in New York (state)
Isbell Field. Isbell Field  is a city-owned public-use airport located two nautical miles (3.7 km) north of the central business district of Fort Payne, a city in DeKalb County, Alabama, United States. According to the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013, it is categorized as a general aviation facility.

Facilities and aircraft 
Isbell Field covers an area of  at an elevation of 877 feet (267 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 4/22 with an asphalt surface measuring 5,001 by 100 feet (1,524 x 30 m).

For the 12-month period ending May 12, 2009, the airport had 16,470 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 45 per day. At that time there were 56 aircraft based at this airport: 82% single-engine, 13% multi-engine and 5% jet.

It was named for John Birdwell Isbell, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama.

See also
 List of airports in Alabama

References

External links 
 Airfield photos for 4A9 from Civil Air Patrol
 Aerial image as of 18 February 1997  from USGS The National Map
 

Airports in Alabama
Transportation buildings and structures in DeKalb County, Alabama
Armstrong Siddeley Stentor. The Armstrong Siddeley Stentor, latterly Bristol Siddeley BSSt.1 Stentor, was a two-chamber HTP rocket engine used to power the Blue Steel stand-off missile carried by Britain's V bomber force. The high thrust chamber was used for the first 29 seconds, after which it was shut down and a smaller cruise chamber was used for the rest of the powered flight.

Design and development
It was fuelled by hydrogen peroxide with kerosene.

The engine incorporated an integral tubular mounting frame which was attached by six lugs to the rear bulkhead of the missile airframe, the complete engine being enclosed in a tube-shaped fairing with the nozzles at the rear.

Applications
Blue Steel missile

Engines on display
Preserved Stentor engines are on display at the following museums:
 Royal Air Force Museum Cosford
 Midland Air Museum
 The University of Liverpool – On display at the Brodie Tower foyer of the Department of Engineering.
 South Yorkshire Aircraft Museum, Doncaster
 Newark Air Museum, Nottinghamshire
 Cambridge Science Centre, Cambridge

Specifications

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References 

Rocket engines using hot cycle hydrogen peroxide propellant
Stentor
Rocket engines using kerosene propellant
Jackson Municipal Airport (Alabama). Jackson Municipal Airport  is a city-owned public airport two miles south of Jackson, in Clarke County, Alabama.

This airport is in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 and 2009–2013, both of which called it a general aviation facility.

Facilities and aircraft 
Jackson Municipal Airport covers 112 acres (45 ha) at an elevation of 62 feet (19 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway, 1/19, 5,003 by 80 feet (1,525 x 24 m) asphalt. In the year ending July 15, 2010 the airport had 2,800 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 233 per month.

See also 
 List of airports in Alabama

References

External links 
 Aerial image as of 22 January 1993 from USGS The National Map
 

Airports in Alabama
Transportation buildings and structures in Clarke County, Alabama
Prioria Robotics Maveric. The Prioria Robotics Maveric is a discontinued unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) marketed as a high-performance, next-generation platform for small and miniature UAV operations. Maveric's bendable wings allow for the ability to store a fully assembled airframe in a  tube.

Design
Maveric can be deployed immediately with no assembly, with a claimed dash speed of . Marketed as the first smart, customizable SUAS, Maveric utilizes Prioria's proprietary processing platform, Merlin.

Operation
Maveric is capable of fully autonomous operation from launch to landing using waypoints, or it can be flown manually by a human pilot via a simple joystick under autopilot assistance.

Maveric was designed for operation by a single user in a military, tactical setting. To accomplish this goal, the airframe had to be small and light enough (2 lb) for a single user to transport, but with large enough wings (28 in) to support the weight of the batteries, cameras, and electronics sufficient for up to one hour of flight-time.

To overcome issues of portability and assembly time, designers employed a bendable-wing design. This design allows for Maveric's wings, which are large enough to meet the desired operational requirements to collapse and wrap around its fuselage and be placed in a  tube, while remaining in a fully assembled state. This has two advantages. It allows the aircraft to be stored in a small space, and it makes the aircraft capable of immediate launch on removal from storage. The flexible wings were also claimed to produce a dampening effect called "apative washout" that would allow the UAS to be flown in heavy wind gusts.

The bendable wings and bird-like profile were also claimed to produce an effect of biological camouflage.

Legal scandal
In 2015, Prioria vendor Condor Aerial alleged that Prioria was providing false specifications for the Maveric UAV, selling a hobby-grade drone at a military-grade price and selling refurbished drones as new. The complaint included allegations that the UAV was easily damaged and also consisted of sworn statements by a prior employee who claimed that then-CEO of Prioria was knowingly falsifying information on government contracts. A report by NOAA documented that their own Maveric drones lasted over six years without mechanical incident over the course of 4,500 combined sorties.

Condor won a breach of contract suit with a jury award of $1.5 million on December 7, 2017, and a writ of execution was assessed on Prioria's assets in January 2018. The verdict was appealed, but the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on January 29, 2018, and the appeal has been on hold ever since.

Former operators
 U.S. Army – 36
 Royal Canadian Air Force – 5
 Republic of Singapore Air Force - 20

See also

References

External links
 Power of the Unmanned
 Homeland Security Tech
 WCJB Gainesville Story
 GEOINT Aerial Vehicles
 Bryan da Frota

Unmanned aerial vehicles of the United States
Surveillance
Pusher aircraft
Blackwell Field. Blackwell Field  is a public-use airport located  southeast of the central business district of Ozark, in Dale County, Alabama, United States. The airport is owned by the Town of Ozark. It is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.

Facilities and aircraft 
Blackwell Field covers an area of  at an elevation of  above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 13/31 with an asphalt surface measuring .

For the 12-month period ending March 4, 2010, the airport had 91,500 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 250 per day. At that time there were 26 aircraft based at this airport: 58% single-engine, 15% multi-engine, 4% jet and 23% helicopter.

See also
 List of airports in Alabama

References

External links 
 

Airports in Dale County, Alabama
Automation (disambiguation). Automation is the process of self-reliability.

Automation may also refer to:

Computing 

 Build automation, the use of managed make tools
 Business process automation, streamlining business operations with software
 Document automation, the use of software to streamline document creation
 Electronic design automation, software filling in details of circuit design
 Office automation, software assisting employees in performing job duties
 OLE Automation, the mechanism whereby applications can access and manipulate shared automation objects that are exported by other applications.
 Robotic process automation, automating tasks in back-end and front-end systems directly in the GUI 
 Support automation, automating problem prevention and resolution processes solutions
 Test automation, simulation of user actions to automate software testing

Others 

 Automation (video game), a 2015 game for Windows
 The Automation, a 2014 novel by an anonymous author using the pen names B.L.A. and G.B. Gabbler
 Broadcast automation, scheduling of broadcasts carried out automatically
 Building automation, regulating environmental parameters for human-occupied buildings
 Console automation, using motorized faders of an audio workstation to automate signal changes
 Home automation, regulating environmental parameters for private occupances
 Laboratory automation, automation of laboratory tasks
 "Automation", a song by the Smashing Pumpkins from Atum: A Rock Opera in Three Acts, 2023

See also
 Automaton (disambiguation)
 Automate (disambiguation)
Skystone Systems. Skystone Systems was a fabless semiconductor company based in Ottawa, Canada. Skystone Systems developed a family of semiconductor products to enable data connectivity in Datacom Equipments (i.e. Ethernet switches or IP Routers) for wide area networks. The flagship product of Skystone Systems was an OC-48 Packet Over SONET Processor (also referred to as an Application Specific Standard Part), first in the industry.

The company was co-founded by Antoine Paquin and Stefan Opalski in 1994. Prior to Skystone, they worked together in Nortel Networks (Bell Northern Research). Early employees of Skystone were Hojjat Salemi (CTO), Brian Stemmler and Niall F.Quaid, CA (VP Finance).  The key ideas that developed the foundation of the start up were developed in Stefan Opalski's house. He was instrumental to acquire key talent from well establish companies such as Nortel Networks and Mitel. Antoine also started other companies after Skystone.

Acquisition by Cisco
Skystone was acquired by Cisco Systems on June 9, 1997 for 1 million shares of Cisco common stock worth approximately $66.5 million (based on Cisco's June 9 closing price of $66.50) and $22.6 million cash. This was the first acquisition of Cisco Systems outside USA.

At the time of acquisition, Skystone Systems had 40 employees and became part of the Cisco Service Provider line of business. It presently operates as Cisco System Ottawa group.

In a news release, Cisco Systems said the following for the reason for this acquisition, 
"Network transport of multiple types of information is rapidly becoming commonplace worldwide, for two reasons. First, the traditionally disparate communication channels of voice, video, and data are converging. And second, these channels are being integrated using the standard Internet protocol (IP). The acquisition of Skystone underscores Cisco's commitment to this new market with the ability to offer users a cost-effective SONET/SDH capability. SONET/SDH is the emerging transport technology used for carrying information in very-high-capacity backbone networks, such as those operated by telecommunications carriers and large internet service providers. Cisco intends to leverage Skystone development efforts on new SONET/SDH transport technologies for integration within next- generation Cisco products."
Skystone Systems has been a very successful acquisition for Cisco, it provided new expertise, business growth and contribution to the bottom line. Graeme Fraser and Bill Swift of Cisco systems were key people that help to integrate & build the vision along Skystone's team . The work done as part of this acquisition in Cisco Systems, created key innovative technologies, such as, Optical Interworking, IP over WDM, 10G optical Module MSA (300pin)...

Defunct software companies of Canada
Cisco Systems acquisitions
WheelGroup. WheelGroup was a computer security company with approximately 65 employees based in San Antonio, Texas. The 10 founders originally met and worked together at the US Air Force Information Warfare Center and many of them subsequently worked at Trident Data Systems.  Taking technology out of what they'd been working on at Trident, they started Wheelgroup in November 1995. WheelGroup was one of the first companies to specialize in network security and penetration testing.

The company developed and sold the first commercial intrusion detection system, NetRanger, which was the flagship intrusion detection software at Cisco Systems and which has now been re-engineered, and re-branded, as the Cisco Systems Adaptive Security Appliance.

WheelGroup also created the first Python-based network vulnerability scanner, NetSonar, which was later re-branded and sold as the Cisco Network Security Scanner.  WheelGroup was acquired by Cisco Systems for $124 million on March 12, 1998.  Since the acquisition of WheelGroup, the original founders have all moved on to positions at other computer security companies, or started their own computer security companies. Kevin Ziese passed in February, 2017

Defunct software companies of the United States
Cisco Systems acquisitions
Komodo Technology. Komodo Technology is an American voice over IP is company. It was acquired by Cisco Systems on July 25, 2000, for US$175 million in stock. It was a leading company in internet and enterprise telephone technology products, notable primarily for its introduction of the analog telephone adapter for voice over IP in the 1990s.

Komodo Technology developed VoIP telephony products and other media appliances for various telephony markets.

See also
 Sipura Technology
 Obihai Technology

References

Defunct software companies of the United States
Cisco Systems acquisitions
Applicative computing systems. Applicative computing systems, or ACS are the systems of object calculi founded on combinatory logic and lambda calculus. 
The only essential notion which is under consideration in these systems is the representation of object. In combinatory logic the only metaoperator is application in a sense of applying one object to other. In lambda calculus two metaoperators are used: application – the same as in combinatory logic, and functional abstraction which binds the only variable in one object.

Features 

The objects generated in these systems are the functional entities with the following features:

 the number of argument places, or object arity is not fixed but is enabling step by step in interoperations with other objects;
 in a process of generating the compound object one of its counterparts—function—is applied to other one—argument—but in other contexts they can change their roles, i.e. functions and arguments are considered on the equal rights;
 the self-applying of functions is allowed, i.e. any object can be applied to itself.

ACS give a sound ground for applicative approach to programming.

Research challenge 

Applicative computing systems' lack of storage and history sensitivity is the basic reason they have not provided a foundation for computer design. Moreover, most applicative systems employ the substitution operation of the lambda calculus as their basic operation. This operation is one of virtually unlimited power, but its complete and efficient realization presents great difficulties to the machine designer.

See also 

 Applicative programming language
 Categorical abstract machine
 Combinatory logic
 Functional programming
 Lambda calculus

References

Further reading 

 [This volume reflects the research program and philosophy of H. Curry, one of the founders of computational models and the deductive framework for reasoning in terms of objects.]

 
Models of computation
Combinatory logic
Lambda calculus
Slicing. Slicing may refer to:
 Array slicing, an operation on an array in computer science
 Chinese salami slicing strategy
 Object slicing, an object-oriented programming issue
 Program slicing, a set of software engineering methods
 Slicing, a mechanical process, see Cutting
 Slicing (interface design), image slicing for web design and interface design
 Slow slicing, a Chinese form of torture and execution
 Slicing (3D printing), the software operation of producing a G-code file from a 3D model file, in preparation for 3D printing.

See also 
 Slice (disambiguation)