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Centennial Campus Partnership Yields Major
Software Gift for NCSU Department of Computer Science
-- TogetherSoft Donates ControlCenter Software Gift Valued
at over $1M --
RALEIGH, N.C. (May 23, 2002) - TogetherSoft Corporation, the
momentum leader in providing software for improving the ways
developers work together, recently made a major donation to
the NCSU Department of Computer Science of 150 licenses for
its Together ControlCenter (TCC) software including premium
support services valued at $1,079,100.
Headquartered in Raleigh, NC., on NCSU's Centennial Campus,
TogetherSoft has grown to over 400 employees located in 10
countries. Peter Coad, TogetherSoft's Chairman and Chief Strategy
Officer, calls the gift "another example of how we are
developing a strong and mutually beneficial partnership with
NC State University." Coad adds, "This provides
access of our industry leading technology to some of the world's
brightest researchers. It also provides hand's-on access and
visibility of our products to students, who will become the
leaders and decision makers of the future."
Together ControlCenter is the comprehensive Model-Build-Deploy
choice for application development. Developers recognize TCC,
now in its sixth generation, for its extended refactorings,
robust pattern support, integrated QA support, automatic migration
between application servers and up-to-minute documentation
generation. This latest release includes extensive IDE enhancements
including a new UI Builder, improved text editor, ten new
refactorings, and a new testing framework module. It also
offers additional modeling functionality and new mobile licensing.
Dr Laurie Williams, assistant professor of computer science,
says the TogetherSoft ControlCenter software will be used
to support numerous research and classroom lab applications
within the Computer Science department. Currently, the software
is supporting Object-Oriented Programming, Senior Design Center
projects, and the Software Engineering curriculum. According
to Dr. Williams, "The TCC software has become central
to our CSC326 Software Engineering class as students learn
software design and use the tool's UML diagramming capabilities
extensively. The tool automatically creates skeleton code
based on the design and updates design diagrams based on the
actual implemented code, a feature which is particularly useful
to our studies." She continues, "Our students also
learn about design patterns, which are supported by the tool.
And the tool easily integrates with JUnit, the open-source
testing framework we use."
According to Department Head, Dr. Alan Tharp, the TogetherSoft
gift will enhance the educational experience for students,
and demonstrates the tremendous impact of corporate and university
partnerships that are flourishing as a result of the Centennial
Campus vision. He adds, "We are extremely appreciative
of TogetherSoft's generosity and support of NC State University,
and in particular, the Department of Computer Science. Strong
and active partnerships between the university and members
of the global business community are core to our mutual success.
We value TogetherSoft as a Corporate Friend in our ePartners
Program and look forward to partnering closely with their
leaders in the future."
About NCSU's Computer Science Department
North Carolina State University's Department of Computer Science
was established in 1967, and is among the nation's largest,
fastest growing and venerable computer science departments.
The department's student enrollment has grown 83% since 1996,
and now includes approximately 1,085 undergraduates and 325
graduate students. Over 14,000 students take courses provided
by the computer science department at NCSU annually. Twenty
tenure-track computer science faculty have joined the department
over the last eight years, possibly the largest influx of
new tenure-track talent for any computer science department
in the United States during this period. Eleven of these faculty
have received the prestigious National Science Foundation
career development award for outstanding young faculty in
the U.S.A. Faculty and staff now occupy space in eight different
buildings spread across multiple campuses, but plans are being
finalized which will consolidate the department in a new $41M
facility on Centennial Campus in the 2005 timeframe. The department
continues to strengthen its curriculum having recently completed
a comprehensive curriculum update adding courses in artificial
intelligence, human-computer interface design, data and computer
communications networks, multimedia technologies, ecommerce
technologies, XML, network security, gaming, and data warehousing.
About NCSU's ePartners Program
Launched in the Fall of 2000, the ePartners Program provides
a formal and structured framework for fostering collaboration
between the business community and NCSU's Department of Computer
Science. The program provides its growing list of corporate
partners an extensive portfolio of benefits including:
· Exclusive recruiting events and online tools
· Access to NCSU, College of Engineering, and Department
of Computer Science News & Communications
· Recognition & exposure through targeted communications
to students, faculty, alumni, and leaders in the business
community
· Invitations to Special Events, Seminars, Lectures
& Forums
· Opportunity to interact with and engage our dynamic
faculty on industry/technology trends and leading-edge research
· Priority naming rights for new CSC Facilities
· Sponsorship of high-profile departmental activities
& events
· Sponsorship of Sr Design Center projects
· Charitable tax benefits
For more information about NCSU's ePartners Program, visit
the program web site at http://epartners.ncsu.edu/
or call Ken Tate, Director of the ePartners Program, at (919)
513-4292.
About TogetherSoft
Dedicated to improving the ways developers work together,
TogetherSoft Corporation creates and delivers software that
enables enterprises to create high-quality applications quickly
and on-budget. TogetherSoft is the momentum leader among software
development vendors - with 81 percent revenue growth in 2001
and significantly faster delivery of new product features
to the market using its proprietary, patent-pending technologies.
TogetherSoft solutions are used by some of the world's most
innovative companies, including Sprint PCS, Cisco Systems,
Sun Microsystems, and Sapient. For more information visit
www.togethersoft.com.
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