AverStar

AverStar (formerly Intermetrics, Inc.) was a <a href="/facts/Software/RP79lVSW">software</a> company founded in <a href="/facts/Cambridge,_Massachusetts/k9UMIJ7U">Cambridge</a>, <a href="/facts/Massachusetts/9uumCbFI">Massachusetts</a> in 1969 by several veterans of <a href="/facts/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology/Xk49vNA8">M.I.T.'s</a> <a href="/facts/Charles_Stark_Draper_Laboratory/prxprY9L">Instrumentation Laboratory</a> who had worked on the software for <a href="/facts/NASA/TIMCV0yV">NASA</a>'s <a href="/facts/Project_Apollo/IC1Ek1Ao">Apollo Program</a> including the <a href="/facts/Apollo_Guidance_Computer/xGxHlrXY">Apollo Guidance Computer</a>.
The company specialized in <a href="/facts/Compiler/WNfCDFJe">compiler</a> technology. It was responsible for the design and implementation of the <a href="/facts/HAL/S/jYp4NM31">HAL/S</a> programming language, used to write the Space Shuttle PASS (Primary Avionics Software System). It participated in the design effort leading to the <a href="/facts/Ada_(programming_language)/Y2yHel4l">Ada</a> programming language, designed the Red language, one of the finalists in the design competition, and wrote one of the first production-quality Ada compilers. The large-scale Ada 95 revision of the language was designed at Intermetrics.
Intermetrics merged with <a href="/facts/Whitesmiths/omu3pVCy">Whitesmiths</a> Ltd. in December 1988. In 1997, Intermetrics merged with <a href="/facts/Video_game/vmTdNASJ">computer game</a> developer <a href="/facts/Looking_Glass_Studios/JbE292rv">Looking Glass Studios</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19991103003801/http://www.lglass.com/c_info/merger.html">[1]</a>. In 1998, Intermetrics acquired Pacer Infotec, and changed its name to 'AverStar'. AverStar merged with the <a href="/facts/Titan_Corporation/RgmjzAKB">Titan Corporation</a> in March, 2000; Titan was acquired by <a href="/facts/L-3_Communications/wkPMGW66">L-3 Communications</a> in 2005.

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