Data analysis
The process of analyzing data to discover useful information and support decision-making
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| May 8 2025 | Altair Engineering was acquired by Siemens for $10.6 billion. |
| 2025 |
Julia
Google Colab officially begins native support for the Julia programming language.
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| 2025 |
Big data
Upcoming fourth Big Data Meets Survey Science (BigSurv) conference planned.
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| 2025 |
Big data
IDC predicts global data volume will expand to 163 zettabytes
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| March 2025 | Acquisition by Siemens was completed. |
| February 2025 | Cellebrite announced it would halt the use of its digital forensics products by certain customers in Serbia following the Amnesty International report about potential misuse of their technology. |
| 2024 | Gartner named Altair a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms. |
| 2024 |
Big data
Square Kilometre Array radio telescope expected to become operational, with plans to gather 14 exabytes and store one petabyte of data per day.
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| 2024 | Seven UK government agencies, including three police agencies, London's city authority, and the UK Foreign Office, signed contracts with Cellebrite, spending a total of $370,000 on Cellebrite services. |
| December 2024 | Amnesty International reported that Serbian police used Cellebrite UFED tools to bypass security on an Android device belonging to journalist SlaviĊĦa Milanov and devices of environmental activists, potentially installing NoviSpy spyware. |
| October 30 2024 | Altair announced its agreement to be acquired by Siemens. |
| October 7 2024 |
Julia
Julia 1.11 is released, adding parallel garbage collection and introducing a new 'public' keyword to signal safe public API.
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| July 2024 | The FBI used unreleased Cellebrite technology to access the phone of Thomas Matthew Crooks, who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump, successfully unlocking the device within 40 minutes using new software from Cellebrite's federal team. |
| July 2024 | Cellebrite announced the acquisition of Cyber Technology Services, a US-based cybersecurity company with federal project clearance. |
| June 7 2024 |
GNU Octave
Version 9.2.0 of GNU Octave was released.
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| March 14 2024 |
GNU Octave
Publication of Octave 9.1.0, featuring general improvements, enhanced MATLAB compatibility, and graphics enhancements.
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| 2023 |
Easystats
The easystats collection of packages received the Award from the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS).
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| 2023 |
Big data
Third Big Data Meets Survey Science (BigSurv) conference conducted.
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| December 25 2023 |
Julia
Julia 1.10 is released, featuring parallel garbage collection, improved package load times, and a new parser rewritten in Julia.
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| October 2023 | Altair acquired OmniQuest, a software company from Novi, Michigan, to further its optimization technology. |
| June 2023 |
Julia
JuliaHub received a $13 million strategic investment led by AE Industrial Partners HorizonX, a venture capital platform formed in partnership with The Boeing Company.
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| May 2023 | US Court of Appeals issued a favorable ruling in a copyright infringement case pertaining to SAS software. |
| May 7 2023 |
Julia
Julia 1.9 is released, enabling full native machine code precompilation for packages, potentially improving first-use performance by hundreds of times.
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| March 2023 | Altair rebranded its AI and data analytics product as Altair RapidMiner. |
| March 7 2023 |
GNU Octave
Publication of Octave 8.1.0, with further improvements to graphics backend and MATLAB compatibility.
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| 2022 |
Julia
Julia 1.8 is released with improvements in distributing Julia programs and compiler speedup.
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| October 2022 |
JMP
JMP/JMP Pro 17 were released.
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| July 27 2022 |
Julia
JuliaCon 2022 held virtually from July 27 to July 29, marking the first conference conducted in multiple languages, not just English.
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| April 6 2022 |
GNU Octave
Publication of Octave 7.1.0 with QT5, improved graphics backend, and enhanced MATLAB compatibility.
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| January 2022 |
Analyst's Notebook
IBM sold i2 Analyst's Notebook and other i2 products to Harris Computer Systems, a subsidiary of Constellation Software
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| 2021 | Altair relaunched its Startup Program. |
| 2021 |
Facet theory
Hackett published the second revised and enlarged edition of 'Facet Theory and the Mapping Sentence', expanding on the theory's evolving philosophy and applications.
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| 2021 |
Julia
JuliaCon held virtually with keynote addresses from notable professors including William Kahan, Jan Vitek, Xiaoye Sherry Li, and Soumith Chintala. The conference grew to 43,000 unique attendees and featured over 300 presentations.
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| 2021 |
Julia
Federal Reserve Bank of New York used Julia to estimate COVID-19 economic shocks.
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| 2021 |
Big data
Global spending on big data and business analytics (BDA) solutions estimated to reach $215.7 billion
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| 2021 |
Big data
Founding members of BigSurv received the Warren J. Mitofsky Innovators Award from the American Association for Public Opinion Research.
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| 2021 | Cellebrite was valued at approximately $2.4 billion, marking a significant milestone in the company's financial valuation. |
| 2021 | Moxie Marlinspike publicly exposed multiple software vulnerabilities in Cellebrite's UFED and Physical Analyzer, revealing potential arbitrary code execution risks and security flaws, which prompted Cellebrite to patch some vulnerabilities and remove full support for analyzing iPhones. |
| 2021 | The New York Times reported that Myanmar's state budget included MacQuisition, a forensic software product from Cellebrite's subsidiary BlackBag Technologies used for extracting data from Apple computers. |
| 2021 | The Intercept reported that despite the previous announcement, Cellebrite was still selling software to China. |
| 2021 | Cellebrite announced they would cease selling products to the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Bangladesh after a reported connection between their software and the organization's extrajudicial killings. |
| December 2021 | Altair was named one of Investor's Business Daily's Best 100 ESG Companies. |
| November 2021 | Altair was included on Inc. Magazine's 2021 Best-Led Companies list. |
| November 2021 | Altair's PBS Professional workload manager was selected by Argonne National Laboratory for use across their high performance computing systems, including Polaris and Aurora supercomputers. |
| November 2021 |
Julia
Julia 1.7 is released, introducing a new faster random-number generator.
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| August 2021 | Cellebrite completed its merger and was listed on Nasdaq under ticker symbols CLBT and CLBTW. |
| July 2021 |
Julia
Julia Computing raised $24 million in Series A funding led by Dorilton Ventures, which also owns Williams Racing Formula 1 team. Williams partnered with Julia Computing to leverage its technological capabilities.
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| July 2021 | Civil society organizations signed a letter arguing against Cellebrite's public listing due to human rights concerns. |
| May 2021 | Botswana police used a Cellebrite UFED device to extract data from journalist Oratile Dikologang's phone, following a senior officer's order to search for information about 'offensive' Facebook posts, as reported by the Committee to Protect Journalists. |
| April 2021 | Cellebrite announced plans to go public through a merger with TWC Tech Holdings II Corporation. |
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