 <b>These programs create new companies through their discoveries</b>. <a href="http://www.mathsoft.com/splus.html">Statistical Sciences, Inc.</a>, a leading supplier of statistical visualization software, <a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/lazowska/impact/statsci.html">was founded by Doug Martin, a UW Statistics faculty member, based in part upon UW Statistics technology</a>. Neopath was founded by Alan Nelson, a UW EE faculty member, based in part upon UW EE technology. <a href="http://metacrawler.cs.washington.edu:8080/">The Metacrawler</a> is one of four UW "intelligent Internet agent" technologies that were recently licensed to <a href="http://www.netbot.com">NETbot, Inc.</a>, a UW-derived startup. <a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/lazowska/impact/manifold.html">The new field of "shape photography" was pioneered by faculty from UW CSE, Mathematics, and Statistics</a>, and the company Manifold Graphics was recently founded to commercialize this technology. In 1996, two additional companies were founded to commercialize UW CSE computer graphics technologies: <a href="http://www.inklination.com/">Inklination</a> (focused on <a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/grail/Projects/cg-pen-and-ink.html">computer-generated pen-and-ink illustration</a>), and <a href="http://www.numinous.com/">Numinous Technologies, Inc.</a> (initially focused on two technologies -- <a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/projects/grail2/www/new/pub/abstracts.html#Duotone">duotone</a> <a href="http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/Sunday-Times/stiinnnws01008.html?1438452">printing</a> and <a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/grail/Projects/query.html">wavelet-based image database querying</a> -- but expecting to license additional UW computer graphics innovations).  <p>
