an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . september 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message kitware type private 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 number of locations chapel hill north carolina lyon france key people 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 number of employees 105 2013 slogan open source platforms advanced research solutions 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 . 1 in addition to software development the company offers other products and services such as books technical support consulting and customized training courses . 1 2 history edit 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 . 3 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 . 3 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 2008 overall rank of 3 026 percentage growth of 117.3 % 4 2009 overall rank of 3 330 percentage growth of 76.1 % 5 2010 overall rank of 1 655 industry rank of 113 percentage growth of 172 % 6 2011 overall rank of 1 572 percent growth of 175 % 7 2012 overall rank of 1 245 percent growth of 248 % 5 time honoree 8 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 . open source edit kitware actively contributes to and maintains several leading open source software packages including free software portal vtk the visualization toolkit itk the insight segmentation and registration toolkit cmake cross platform build management tool cdash web based test reporting dashboard paraview parallel visualization application midas scientific data management tool igstk image guided surgery toolkit insight journal 3dslicer areas of expertise edit 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 medical imaging 9 bayesian regularization applied to ultrasound strain imaging by mccormick m. rubert n. varghese t agile methods for open source safety critical software by gary k. enquobahrie a. ibanez l. cheng p. yaniv z. cleary k. kokoori s. muffih b. heidenreich j. sensors management in robotic neurosurgery the robocast project by vaccarella a. comparetti m. enquobahrie a. ferrigno g. de momi e. the need for open imaging archives how open imaging archives benefit algorithm development by r. avila scientific visualization 10 streaming enabled parallel data flow framework in the visualization toolkit by vo h.t. comba j.l. geveci b. silva c.t. verifying scientific simulations via comparative and quantitative visualization by ahrens j. heitmann k. peterson m. woodring j. williams s. fasel p. ahrens c. hsu c. geveci b. multi resolution streaming in vtk and paraview by demarle d. woodring j. ahrens j. computer vision 11 a large scale benchmark dataset for event recognition in surveillance video by oh s. hoogs a. perera a. cuntoor n. chen c c. lee j.t. mukherjee s. aggarwal j.k. lee h. davis l. swears e. wang x. ji q. reddy k. shah m. vondrick c. pirsiavash h. ramanan d. yuen j. torralba a. song b. fong a. roy chowdhury a. desai m. vehicle surveillance with a generic adaptive 3d vehicle model by leotta m. mundy j. augmenting aerial earth maps with dynamic information from videos by kim k. oh s. lee j. essa i. data management 12 remote visualization of large datasets with midas and paraviewweb by jomier j. jourdain s. ayachit u. marion c. locations edit kitware inc. headquarters clifton park ny 28 corporate drive clifton park ny 12065 kitware inc. branch office chapel hill nc 101 east weaver street carrboro nc 27510 kitware inc. branch office santa fe nm 1800 old pecos trail suite g santa fe nm 87505 kitware sas headquarters lyon france 26 rue louis gu rin 69100 lyon france references edit a b kitware inc. website . an open source approach to developing software in a small organization . ieee software magazine . 2007 . a b vtk inc. 5000 list 2008 . inc. 5000 list 2009 . inc. 5000 list 2010 . inc. 5000 list 2011 . 1 . medical imaging publications . scientific visualization publications computer vision publications remote visualization of large datasets with midas and paraviewweb data management publications external links edit kitware s homepage additional readings edit kde adopts cmake linux today 2007 the road to kde 4 cmake a new build system for kde 2007 linux weekly news 2006 new visualization cluster installed on world s fastest supercomputer los alamos national lab press release 2004 nvidia press release 2005 kitware software listed at teragrid.org automated wrapping of complex c code dr dobbs portal 2003 the cmake build manager cross platform and open source dr dobbs portal 2003 timesunion 2004 an open source approach to developing software in a small organization ieee software 2007 record of us federal contracts sandia national labs press release 2005 sandia national labs breakthrough performance press release 2005 sintef tele medicine collaboration press release 2006 monthly news service european hpcn community 2001 igstk publication in ieee computer company profile in albany business review albany business review press release of nih funding for namic 2004 competitiveness depends on cooperation albany business review 2005 kitware s profile techvalley times 2005 medical uses of vtk via pv wave university of alabama at birmingham press release at monthly news service european hpcn community 2001 kitware software used for modeling brain blood circulation kitware s vtk entry at the nasa goddard space flight center data services page kitware s paraview entry at the nasa goddard space flight center data services page building a visualization cluster with rocks hpc wire 2006 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title kitware & oldid 738712069 categories companies based in new yorkhidden categories articles with a promotional tone from september 2014all articles with a promotional tone navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom 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