Boston, MA, USA – 02 November, 2006 – PrismTech™, a leading provider of productivity tools and middleware, today announced the appointment of distributed computing expert Dr. Douglas C. Schmidt as its Principal Technologist.

Dr. Schmidt is an internationally renowned and widely cited expert on distributed computing middleware, object-oriented patterns and frameworks, and distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) systems. He has authored 8 best-selling books and over 300 papers in top IEEE, ACM, IFIP, and USENIX technical journals, conferences, and books—and has also presented over 300 keynote addresses, invited talks, and tutorials—that cover a range of topics, including high-performance communication software systems, parallel processing for high-speed networking protocols, real-time distributed computing with CORBA®, Real-time Java™ technology, object-oriented patterns for concurrent and distributed systems, and Model-driven engineering (MDE) tools.

Over the past two decades, Dr. Schmidt has led the development of the ACE, which is a widely used open-source object-oriented framework that contains a rich set of components that implement patterns for high-performance DRE systems. Dr. Schmidt and the members of his research group in the Distributed Object Computing (DOC) Group at the Institute for Software Intensive Systems (ISIS) at Vanderbilt University have used ACE to develop a high performance, real-time CORBA ORB endsystem called The ACE ORB (TAO), which is open-source software that supports end-to-end quality-of-service assurance over high-speed networks and embedded interconnects. In turn, ACE and TAO form the basis for the Component-Integrated ACE ORB (CIAO), which is a real-time open-source implementation of Lightweight CORBA Component Model (CCM) built by the DOC Group. Most recently, the DOC Group has developed CoSMIC, which is a collection of open-source domain-specific modeling languages and their associated MDE analysis/synthesis tools that support various phases of DRE system development, analysis, configuration, and deployment. ACE, TAO, CIAO, and CoSMIC have been used successfully by thousands of developers at hundreds of companies world-wide. In collaboration with his colleagues, Dr. Schmidt has applied these middleware platforms and MDE tools on large-scale projects at many companies, including BBN Technologies, Boeing, Cisco, Ericsson, Kodak, Lockheed Martin, Lucent, Motorola, Nokia, Nortel, Raytheon, Qualcomm, SAIC, Siemens, Sprint, and Telcordia. These projects involve telecommunications systems, medical imaging systems, real-time avionic systems, shipboard computing systems, and distributed interactive simulation systems.

In addition to serving as Principal Technologist at PrismTech, Dr Schmidt is a Full Professor of Computer Science, the Associate Chair of Computer Science and Engineering, and a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS), all at Vanderbilt University. He previously served as a Program Manager and Scientific and Engineering Technical Assistant in the DARPA Information eXploitation Office (IXO), where he led the US national effort on QoS-enabled component middleware and MDE tool research in the Program Composition for Embedded Systems (PCES) and Adaptive and Reflective Middleware Systems (ARMS) programs.

He also served as the Deputy Director of the DARPA Information Technology Office (ITO), where he helped to set the US national IT R&D agenda on autonomous systems, network-centric command and control systems, distributed real-time and embedded systems, and augmented cognition. In addition, Dr. Schmidt served as the co-chair for the Software Design and Productivity (SDP) Coordinating Group of the Federal government's multi-agency Information Technology Research and Development (IT R&D) Program, the collaborative IT research effort of the major US science and technology agencies.

“Doug is a true visionary in distributed computing and model-driven engineering and I'm delighted that he has chosen to join PrismTech,” said Keith Steele, CEO of PrismTech.

“I'm very excited at the prospect of joining PrismTech,” said Dr. Schmidt. “The company has leading industry experts and great distributed computing middleware and model-driven technology, and I look forward to contributing to its work.”

About PrismTech

Founded in 1992, with offices in the USA and Europe, PrismTech is a privately held software products company. PrismTech serves international Fortune 500 customers in the telecommunications, data communications, defense and aerospace sectors. PrismTech is an acknowledged leader in software productivity tools and middleware, with solutions ranging from wide-scale integration to embedded real-time systems, supporting applications from operations support systems (OSS) through to software-defined radio (SDR). For additional information about PrismTech, visit the web site at www.prismtech.com.