Waterloo Maple

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Waterloo Maple Inc.
Maplesoft
Company typePrivate
IndustrySymbolic Computation, Software, Technical Computing
Founded20 April 1988 (1988-04-20) (Waterloo Maple Software)
3 March 2003 (2003-03-03) (Maplesoft)
Founder Keith Geddes and Gaston Gonnet
Headquarters,
Parent Cybernet Systems Group
Website www.maplesoft.com
Maplesoft Corporate Headquarters MaplesoftCorporateHeadquarters.jpg
Maplesoft Corporate Headquarters

Waterloo Maple Inc. is a Canadian software company, headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario. It operates under the trade name Maplesoft. It is best known as the manufacturer of the Maple computer algebra system, and MapleSim physical modeling and simulation software.

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Corporate history

Waterloo Maple Inc. was first incorporated under the name Waterloo Maple Software in April 1988 by Keith Geddes and Gaston Gonnet, who were both then professors in the Symbolic Computation Group, a part of the computer science department (now the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science) at the University of Waterloo.

Tim Bray served as the part-time CEO of Waterloo Maple Inc. from 1989-1990. During this period he claims in his resume that he helped save the company from one close encounter with bankruptcy by "instituting financial discipline". [1]

Gonnet left the company in 1994 after a failed attempt to purchase a controlling stake despite already owning 30% of the shares, and following protracted disagreements over the management of the company sold his remaining share in 2001. [2]

On April 20, 1998, Waterloo Maple Inc. announced its relocation to Seagram Museum [3] in Waterloo, which was itself the former location of the original Seagram distillery.

On March 3, 2003, Waterloo Maple Inc. announced the immediate introduction of the name Maplesoft as its primary business name. [4]

On May 27, 2003, Maplesoft announced relocating its headquarters to Waterloo Tech Campus at 615 Kumpf Drive, North Waterloo, [5] and expected to begin operation at the relocated site on 2003-09-02. [6]

On July 16, 2008, Maplesoft announced Cybernet Systems Taiwan was appointed as a Maplesoft Reseller for the Commercial and Government markets. [7]

On July 30, 2009, Maplesoft announced it has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Cybernet Systems Co., Ltd. [8] In 2009-07-31, Cybernet Systems Co., Ltd. announced its acquisitions of all outstanding shares of Waterloo Maple Inc., with transaction to be executed via Cybernet Holdings CANADA, Inc, with consolidation to be completed by 2009-09-01. As a result of this acquisition, 10% of the workforce at the time (Around a dozen workers) lost their jobs. [9] [10] [11] [12]

On June 26, 2012, Maplesoft announced its entry to Modelica-based professional consulting services, which included model development and simulation services, analysis and tool development, real-time plant-model code generation, and training. [13]

In June 2018, Maplesoft announced that it was spinning off its Möbius and Maple T.A. products to a new, independent company called DigitalEd. [14]

On December 19, 2018, Maplesoft announced that Dr. Laurent Bernardin, COO and Chief Scientist has been appointed as new CEO and President of Maplesoft effective January 1, 2019. Dr. Bernardin succeeds former CEO, Jim Cooper who has moved to become the full-time CEO of DigitalEd, a company Maplesoft spun-off in early 2018. [15] Dr. Bernardin was a student at ETH and was supervised by Prof. Gaston Gonnet, co-founder of Maplesoft. [16]

Subsidiaries

Products

ProductRelated ProductsVersion
Maple
  • Maple Add-Ons
BlockImporter
Global Optimization
Grid Computing
Quantum Chemistry
Advanced Engineering Mathematics with Maple
Calculus Study Guide
Precalculus Study Guide
The Mathematics Survival Kit - Maple Edition
2021
MapleSim
  • MapleSim Add-Ons
MapleSim Connector
MapleSim Connector for LabVIEW and NI VeriStand Software
MapleSim Connector for dSPACE Software
MapleSim Control Design Toolbox
MapleSim Tire Component Library
MapleSim Driveline Component Library
2020
MapleNetn/an/a

Information above taken from the official Maplesoft website. [28]

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