# Kitware

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American technology company

Kitware Type Private Industry Computer software Large Data Visualization Biomedical Imaging Quality Software Process Informatics Data Publishing Computer Vision Open Source Founded New York (1998) Headquarters Clifton Park, New York , USA Number of locations Chapel Hill, North Carolina Santa Fe, New Mexico Minneapolis, Minnesota Arlington, Virginia Lyon, France Key people Lisa Avila (CEO & co-founder) Bill Hoffman (Chairman, CTO & co-founder) Claudine Hagen (CFO) Will Schroeder (co-founder) Ken Martin (co-founder) Charles Law (co-founder) Stephen Aylward (Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives) Berk Geveci (Senior Director of Scientific Computing) Anthony Hoogs (Vice President of Artificial Intelligence) Products High-performance computing, visualization, and storage Number of employees 195 (2024) Website www.kitware.com

**Kitware, Inc.** is a technology company headquartered in [Clifton Park](/source/Clifton_Park%2C_New_York), New York. The company is involved in the research and development of [open-source software](/source/Open-source_software) in the fields of [computer vision](/source/Computer_vision), [medical imaging](/source/Medical_imaging), [visualization](/source/Scientific_visualization), 3D data publishing, and technical [software development](/source/Software_development).[1][2]

## History

The company was founded in 1998 by Will Schroeder, Ken Martin, Lisa Avila, Charles Law and Bill Hoffman to support the [Visualization Toolkit (VTK)](/source/VTK). VTK was initially created in 1993 by Schroeder, Martin and Bill Lorensen as companion software to “The Visualization Toolkit: An Object-Oriented Approach to 3D Graphics," originally published by [Prentice-Hall](/source/Prentice-Hall).[3] As VTK was released open source, a user community developed around the software and the founders of Kitware took this opportunity to start the business.[3] Later, the company expanded its focus and offerings to include development in other areas such as [biomedical imaging](/source/Medical_imaging), [large data visualization](/source/Scientific_visualization), [quality software process](/source/Software_development_process), [informatics](/source/Informatics), and data management.

The company has four additional offices: Carrboro, North Carolina; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Santa Fe, New Mexico; Arlington, Virginia; and Kitware SAS, the European office, in Lyon, France.

Kitware contributes to many popular open-source projects, such as [VTK](/source/VTK) and [CMake](/source/CMake).

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Kitware_Website_1-0)** ["Kitware, Inc. Website"](http://kitware.com/).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Kitware_Services_2-0)** Martin, Ken; Hoffman, Bill (2007). "An Open Source Approach to Developing Software in a Small Organization". *IEEE Software*. **24**: 46–53. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1109/MS.2007.5](https://doi.org/10.1109%2FMS.2007.5). [S2CID](/source/S2CID_(identifier)) [15738858](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:15738858).

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-VTK_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-VTK_3-1) [VTK](/source/VTK)

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