Knowledge Systems Corporation

Reed Phillips founded KSC with the intention of offering products and services in the emerging Knowledge Engineering market. Reed soon found the Smalltalk market to be emerging much more rapidly, probably due to the boundless energy of Sam Adams, an early member of the KSC team.

Other contributions, acheivements and inventions include...

Enterprise modeling with CRC Cards

The Co Design developement tool/environment

... and more to be sure ...

Factoid: Reed told the graphic artist to make sure the company logo was easy to draw with the desktop equipment of the day.

To learn more about KSC, see www.ksc.com


I always thought our friends in Portland did CRC Cards (Ward Cunningham, Rebecca Wirfs Brock, others). Did KSC do the first Enterprise modeling? Am I growing senile?


Tom, you're misunderstanding this section (Which Ward wrote!) Ward And Kent did invent CRC cards. However, Sam popularized their use and introduced them to a wider audience with a multitude of CRC talks at many, many conferences.


Got it, now. I thought I had fallen into a universe where Ward and Sam worked for IBM and KSC invented CRC (also where Elvis was dead).


But.. Elvis is dead. He died during the "harmonic convergence" so that he could be reincarnated as Quetzalcoatl. Watch the old B sci-fi movie 'Q' backwards for details.


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