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News Release
September 5, 2000
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Megan
E. Matthews
(301) 403-2711 ext. 17
SabaTech
Provides Maryland High Schools
With High-Tech Education
COLLEGE PARK, MD . . . SabaTech Corporation, a University
of Maryland, College Park, start-up company located in College Park,
recently licensed its lead product--CODEMILLTM
Jr. software--to the public school systems of Howard County
and Prince George's County and to the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute.
This fall, more than 20 high schools in Howard County and Prince
George's County, the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute and private
high schools around the state of Maryland will be using CODEMILLTM
Jr. software to improve the quality of computer science education
for high school students and to better prepare Maryland's youth
for high-tech employment in innovative and competitive global markets.
CODEMILLTM Jr. software illustrates the fundamental concepts
in computer science and engineering by featuring arithmetic in binary,
octal, decimal, hexadecimal and floating-point number systems; built-in
graphics instructions and raster graphics emulation; a programming
palette with 96 instructions; explicit stack programming; recursive
subroutine calling; input/output processing; and built-in balloon
help within a very powerful emulator that shows how a computer executes
programs using a visual scratch-pad and screen.
Yavuz A. Oruç, an electrical and computer engineering professor
at the university, developed the software to explain key computer
architecture concepts for a class he was asked to instruct. Oru
then licensed the software from the university's Office of Technology
Commercialization and founded SabaTech Corporation in 1998.
"Getting CODEMILLTM Jr. software to high school students
in Maryland and across the nation will help improve the computer
science technology education of America's youth," said Oruç.
"By stimulating new knowledge, CODEMILLTM Jr. software
can instill [in students] the desire to learn about computers
and can lead them into careers that are more oriented toward computer
science and engineering."
SabaTech Corporation is a research and development corporation specializing
in frontier information technology products and services. SabaTech's
mission is to develop cutting-edge concepts that can lead to easier,
faster, more reliable and economical dissemination of knowledge
and information among peoples and societies around the globe.
The Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC) at the University
of Maryland was established in 1986 to facilitate the transfer of
life, information and physical science inventions developed at the
university to business and industry. In the past 13 years, OTC has
recorded more than 930 technologies, secured more than 135 patents
and executed more than 450 license agreements, generating more than
$17 million in technology transfer income to the university. In
addition, 18 high-tech start-up companies have been formed based
on technologies developed at the university.
For
more information, contact Megan
E. Matthews at (301) 403-2711 ext. 17.
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