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January 25, 2008

Welcome to the Design Science News blog

Today we are introducing our first two Design Science blogs:

  • Design Science News: general news about our products and company (which you are currently reading.) You can Sign-up to receive this blog via email.
  • Making Math Accessible: news on math accessibility. Sign-up to receive this blog via email

These blogs accept comments so please let us know what you think.

January 23, 2008

Design Science is growing

We are always on the lookout for smart, capable people to join the Design Science team. We've recently added Lary Stucker, Emarketing Manager, Gildas Le Pallec, Channel Manager (Long Beach) and Jim Morris, Director of Engineering (St. Paul). Available positions are listed on our Careers page but even if none of the listed positions seem like a good fit, we are always interested in good people. Send your resume in confidence to jobs@dessci.com

MathType for the Macintosh and Microsoft Office 2008

Microsoft has just released Office 2008 for the Macintosh. This is the first version of Office that runs natively on Intel Macs. Unfortunately, the current version of MathType isn't compatible with it. We're working on a new version to deal with this but before upgrading to Office 2008 there are some things you should know. Visit MathType and Microsoft Office 2008 for details.

January 15, 2008

Math on the Web at the Joint Mathematics Meetings

For the sixth year in a row, a consortium of software vendors has teamed up with the American Mathematical Society to present the Math on the Web Pavilion at the Joint Mathematics Meetings. This year's meeting was held in San Diego with the most varied slate of speakers ever, both from business and academia. Twelve speakers presented a total of fifteen sessions, including these from Design Science:

It was good to see such enthusiasm among the JMM attendees for our new MathType 6 release for Windows, which includes TeX input and Wikipedia copy/paste. Read more at JMM Math on the Web Pavilion 2008.

January 14, 2008

Design Science software certified as FDCC compliant

In accordance with OMB Memo m07-18, Design Science has tested MathType 6.0c, MathFlow 1.7, and MathPlayer 2.1b with the Security Configuration Automation Protocol using Secutor Prime by Threat Guard. We have certified these 3 software products as being compliant with the Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC), which is an OMB-mandated security configuration that exists for Microsoft Windows Vista and XP operating system software. Read more at FDCC Compliance.

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