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I’ve been in the business of creating and deploying scientific software for more years than I’ll admit to. Over these many years, there have been several constants: the work is challenging, fun, and makes a positive impact on our society. Another constant is the way work like this is funded, typically by large research organizations […]

On behalf of myself, Ken, Bill, Brad, Alex, Zach, Ben and the rest of the CMake team, we are pleased to announce that CMake 2.8.3 is available for download at: http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.8/?C=M;O=D Within the next day or two, it will also be available from the usual download links found on the CMake web site: http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html Here are the changes for CMake 2.8.3: […]

The CMake 2.8.3 release candidate stream continues! You can find the source and binaries here: http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.8/?C=M;O=D EXCEPT: There are not yet Irix or Sun pre-built binary installers available for CMake 2.8.3-rc4. There is a failing (HTML documentation validity checking) test on some platforms that appears to be unrelated to any CMake source code changes. That […]

3D Slicer is an open-source (BSD-style license) platform for medical image segmentation, registration, visualization and analysis. It represents a practical integration of innovations from a multitude of fields including medical image analysis, cross-platform software development, collaborative software development and extensible platform design. Kitware has been closely involved in many of these innovations. In particular, 3D […]

Ten years ago, the National Library of Medicine initiated a software development program to produce an open-source toolkit for the segmentation and registration of medical images, in particular the Visible Man and Visible Woman data. The outcome of that program was the Insight Toolkit (ITK). From those humble beginnings, ITK is now used in basic […]

The VTK wrappers received their last major overhaul in 1998 and have done well to serve the VTK community. In recent years, however, the wrappers have started to show some cracks, particularly as new types such as vtkVariant and vtkUnicodeString have been introduced to VTK but have not been made available in the wrappers. One […]

XC is a program designed at our company, Iturribizia [1], to solve structural analysis problems utilizing a finite element method. The program can solve various types of problems, from simple linear analysis to complex nonlinear simulations. It has a library of finite elements which can be used to modeling various geometries and multiple materials for […]

ITKv4 Ten years ago, the National Library of Medicine initiated a software development program to produce an open-source toolkit for the segmentation and registration of medical images, in particular the Visible Man and Visible Woman data. The outcome of that program was the Insight Toolkit (ITK). From those humble beginnings, ITK is now used in […]

DARPA Awards Kitware $11 Million for Phase II of VIRAT Program Kitware has received an $11 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to lead Phase II of its Video and Image Retrieval and Analysis Tool (VIRAT) program. Kitware was selected to lead the sole Phase II award based on the success of […]

The CMake 2.8.3 release candidate stream continues! You can find the source and binaries here: http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.8/?C=M;O=D   Since we switched to git, and a new workflow, we’re expecting to do more frequent releases. Because of that, our release candidate phases will be shorter than they have been historically. So, if you want to test this out and […]

Kitware is pleased to announce the release of ParaView 3.8.1, a patch release over 3.8.0 with a small set of improvements. ParaView now comes HDF5 1.8.5. This enables developers to easily create readers and plugins for ParaView that use newer versions of HDF5. We are now including the C++ and the high level (hl) versions […]

I am happy to announce that CMake 2.8.3 has entered the release candidate stage! You can find the source and binaries here: http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.8/?C=M;O=D Following is the list of changes in this release. (If you notice something missing please let me know and I will add it to the official release when 2.8.3 is finalized.) Please try this version of […]

The ParaView team is pleased to announce the availability of the ParaView 3.8.1 Release Candidate 1 binaries for download on the ParaView download page. Final binaries should follow shortly. Release Notes: ParaView 3.8.1 is a patch release over 3.8.0 with a a small set of improvements. The following are some noteworthy improvements and fixes. ParaView […]

Kitware welcomes several new employees to the team: Jacob Becker Jacob joined Kitware’s Computer Vision Group in October 2009 as an R&D Engineer. Jacob received his B.S. in Computer Science and Archaeology from the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse (UW-L) in 2001 and his M.S. in Computer Science from RPI in 2009. While at […]

I have been working with David Gobbi, a long-standing member of the VTK developer community, and some Kitware developers, on integrating some large changes to the wrapping code used by VTK to generate the Python, Tcl and Java bindings. The majority of these changes were authored by David, who has continued to push in more […]

On behalf of myself, Ken, Bill, Brad, Alex, Zach and the rest of the CMake team, we are pleased to announce that CMake 2.8.2 is available for download at: http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html Here are the changes for CMake 2.8.2: No changes in CMake 2.8.2 since 2.8.2-rc4. Changes in CMake 2.8.2-rc4 (since 2.8.2-rc3)——————————————–Bill Hoffman (1):      Fix for bug […]

I am happy to announce that CMake 2.8.2 has entered the release candidate stage! You can find the source and binaries here: http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.8/. Following is the list of changes in this release. (If you notice something missing please let me know and I will add it to the official release when 2.8.2 is finalized.) Changes […]