which American multinational computer software XT9 now part of
Nuance Communications Nuance Communications is an American multinational computer software technology corporation, headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, United States on the outskirts of Boston, that provides speech and imaging applications. Current business products focus on server and embedded speech recognition, telephone call steering systems, automated telephone directory services, medical transcription software and systems, optical character recognition software, and desktop imaging software. The company also maintains a small division which does software and system development for military and government agencies.
Russell Artzt Russell M. Artzt (born 1948) Co-founded Computer Associates International, Inc. (now CA Technologies) with Charles B. Wang. While Russ was working at the Electronic Laboratories in the 1960s at Columbia University, he met Charles Wang. They became friends and later both joined Standard Data. "In the late 1970s a Swiss company, owned by billionaire Walter Haefner, had developed a computer program, Sort. Russel Artzt and Charles Wang formed their own company and bought the company from Haefner. {The preceding two statements appear to be incorrect, apparently from confusion with CA's 1987 acquisition of UCCEL Corp.}" Haefner still is the majority stockholder of Computer Associates owning over 25% of CA Inc.