Waterloo Maple

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Waterloo Maple Inc. (Maplesoft)

Type	Private
Founded	April, 1988
Founder	Keith Geddes and Gaston Gonnet
Headquarters	Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Industry	Symbolic Computation, Computer software, Technical computing
Website	www.maplesoft.com

Maplesoft Corporate Headquarters

Waterloo Maple Inc. is a privately held Canadian software company, headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario. It operates under the trading name Maplesoft and is best known as the manufacturer of the Maple computer algebra system.

1 Corporate History
2 Products
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Corporate History

Waterloo Maple Inc. was first incorporated under the name Waterloo Maple Software in April 1988 by Keith Geddes and Gaston Gonnet, who were both then professors in the Symbolic Computation Group, a part of the computer science department (now the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science) at the University of Waterloo.

Tim Bray served as the part-time CEO of Waterloo Maple Inc. during 1989-1990. During this period he helped save the company from one close encounter with bankruptcy.^[1]

Gonnet left the company in 1994 after a failed attempt to purchase a controlling stake despite already owning 30% of the shares, and following protracted disagreements over the management of the company sold his remaining share in 2001.^[2]

From July 1998 to August 2003, the headquarters of Waterloo Maple was located in the former Seagram Museum in Waterloo, which was itself the former location of the original Seagram distillery. Its headquarters have since moved to Kumpf Drive in Waterloo.