ITK 3.0 Released

ITK 3.0 was released on November 21, 2006. The main change in this release is the addition of an alternative wrapping system called WrapITK. This system was contributed by...

DOD Awards Kitware Phase II STTR for High-Performance GPU Computing

The DOD Army Research Lab has Awarded Kitware a Phase II STTR for accelerated data processing and rendering using GPU technologies. The focus of the work is to utilize the graphical processing unit...

Kitware Releases Version 5.0 of VTK Users Guide

VTK Users Guide has been updated for VTK Version 5.0. It includes several new additions such as a description of VTK's new pipeline architecture. The User's Guide is now printed in full color and i...

Technical Books Update

Three of Kitware's technical books have been recently revised. The ITK Software Guide (ISBN 1-930934-15-7) has been updated for ITK version 2.4, and is 832 pages. The ParaView Guide...

KWWidgets Update

Although KWWidgets has been under development for quite some time, and some of the classes had been released as part of the ParaView distribu...

CMake 2.4.2 Released

The latest release of CMake is the 2.4 release. The 2.4 release branch has many new features to support KDE(www.kde.org), which has chosen CMake as its build system...

Kitware Welcomes New Employee

Kitware welcomes several new employees to the team.

• Jeffrey Baumes, currently a PhD student at RPI who will graduate in August. Mr. Baumes' expertise is in graph theory, and will wor...

CMake 2.4 Released

CMake Release 2.4 available in May 2006. This release as the following new features:

• Visual Studio 2005 win64 support
• Improved install support
• Improved FIND_PRO...

DOD Awards Kitware Phase I SBIR for Automatic Segmentation

The DOD Air Force Research Lab has awarded Kitware a Phase I SBIR for automating the segmentation of 3D image datasets, for the purpose of converting this segmented datasets into simulation models....

ITK 2.6 Released

ITK 2.6 was released on March 1, 2006. ITK has adopted a Quarterly release model in order to more rapidly deliver new features to the community. This release schedule began with the ITK 2.4 release...

NSF Awards Kitware Phase II SBIR for Volume Rendering of AMR Datasets

The National Science Foundation has Awarded Kitware a Phase II SBIR for volume rendering of adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) data. AMR data is used by many scientists and engineers to simulate proces...

VTK 5.0 Released

VTK 5.0 was released in January 2006. This is a major release with significant changes from the previous version. Highlights include the following:

• The execution pipeline was overhau...

Kitware Established North Carolina Office and Welcomes New Employees

Kitware, Inc. is pleased to announce that it has established a Chapel Hill, North Carolina office. The Chapel Hill office will be led by Dr. Stephen Aylward, Chief Medical Scientist, and Julien Jom...