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Mission Statement : :
Inductel's mission is
twofold. Our first aim is to develop and maintain a library of high
quality, reasonably priced reference works as computer software for sale
to the general public. Our second is to advance the study and application
of artificial intelligence. Computer software applications incorporating
artificial intelligence will be featured in future products.
Adding new
products annually, Inductel now offers a line of 12 dictionaries and 10
spellers. We sell our products at computer shows across America and on the
internet worldwide. Our main office is located in the "Silicon
Valley" in the city of Monte Sereno, just outside San Jose,
California, U.S.A.
People : Allan
Pekary founded Inductel in 1985. Allan Pekary a graduate of both Stanford University
(BS in Biology) and the University of Santa Clara (MS in Electronics
Engineering / Computer Science). Before founding Inductel, Allan worked
for ten years as an electronics engineer in the micro-computer industry.
COMPANY HISTORY
- 2009
- Audio pronunciations are now standard in
all Inductel definition-type dictionaries including general, medical,
scientific, technical, and legal.
- New, advanced user interface is standard
in all Inductel definition-type dictionaries.
- 2007
- November 26. All Inductel products
are now Apple iWork compatible including Pages and Keynote. They
also are Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) compatible.
- March 1. Inductel Medical Dictionary now boasts
more than 40,000
headwords pronounced by a recorded human voice. Also includes
text reader that can speak 73,000 words from the dictionary
including entire definitions.
- February 1. All PC products are now Windows Vista/XP/2000/98/95
compatible. All Mac products are PowerPC and Intel compatible.
- 2006
- March 16. Inductel adds 5,550 drug
names and 13,600 medical abbreviations to the Inductel Medical
Dictionary.
- February 1. Inductel releases the
latest version of its medical dictionary featuring the navigable
interactive human nervous system and an expanded vocabulary for the text
reader. Also released is a new version of the MicroLibrary for Mac
OS X featuring video clips, improved spoken pronunciations and text
reader.
- 2004
- June 19. Inductel publishes its
latest addition to the Inductel Medical Dictionary: a comprehensive,
illustrated set of more than 200 human muscle definitions. The
muscle definitions include information as to origin, insertion, nerve
supply, and action. Each muscle definition also includes an
illustration. All of the muscle illustrations and definitions are
linked together in a navigable HTML muscle web. This myology
addition was created by T. R. Gray of Inductel.
- March 18. Inductel
dictionaries and spellers now support both StarOffice and OpenOffice.
Versions supported are StarOffice 6.0 for Windows, StarOffice 7 for Windows,
OpenOffice 1.1 for Windows, StarOffice 6.0 for Linux, StarOffice 7 for
Linux, and OpenOffice 1.1 for Linux.
- 2003 In its effort to
create a comprehensive set of anatomical illustrations for its medical
dictionary, Teddi R. Gray of Inductel has completed a set of osteological graphics including
both illustrations of all the human bones and a navigable skeletal
system. Both the osteological illustrations and the "clickable"
skeleton are now available in our medical dictionary and in our MicroLibrary.
Inductel also added to its medical dictionary, a graphically dissectible
human body which displays illustrations of internal organs along with
definitions.
- 2002 Inductel increased the number of full color photos in the MicroLibrary
from 600 to more than 1,200. Further additions to the MicroLibrary's
collection of photographs and illustrations are underway now.
- 2001: Inductel accomplished these
things:
- begun offering Macintosh versions of all of its
products in addition to its Windows compatible products.
- made all of its product upgrades available by download from the Inductel
website.
- Increased the size of its medical speller
from 73,000 words to over 100,000, and greatly expanded the medical
speller's list of prescription drug names, and pharmaceutical
terms.
- 2000:
- Inductel
increased the size of its medical speller from 40,000 entries to 73,000
entries.
- Inductel converted all audio files found
in its products from .wav format to the much more efficient .mp3 format.
- Inductel converted all graphics files
found in its products from the Windows .bmp format to the multi-platform
compatible .gif format.
- Inductel released its first multi-platform
compatible JAVA coded dictionaries and spellers.
- 1999:
Inductel added a state of the art shopping cart system to its website, and made downloadable versions of many of its products
available from the Inductel website.
- 1998:
Inductel added the state of the art "InstallShield" installation
interface to each of its products. Inductel discontinued its MS-DOS line
of products in order to focus entirely on producing products for the Windows
environment. Inductel also published its first "talking dictionary",
the speaking version of the MicroLibrary. It can pronounce more than 30,000
words in a true human voice.
- 1997:
Inductel shipped the first editions of both the Inductel Medical Speller and the
Inductel Combination Speller.
- 1996:
Inductel added full color illustrations to the MicroLibrary.
- 1995: Inductel created its first website
and began selling a selection of its product line there.
- 1994: Inductel added the CD-ROM to its
stock of recording media and shipped its first MicroLibrary on
CD-ROM.
- 1992:
Inductel added the Dictionary of Investment Terminology, both DOS and Windows
versions, to its product line.
- 1991: Inductel added
Bouvier's Law Dictionary to its list of products. Inductel also began offering
Microsoft Windows versions of all of its products including Brody's Medical
Dictionary and the MicroLibrary.
- 1989:
Inductel added Brody's Medical Dictionary for MS-DOS to its line of software
products.
- 1988:
Inductel added dictionaries of science and technology to its
product line of dictionaries on diskettes for MS-DOS. Also, Inductel began shipping, the MicroLibrary, a comprehensive reference work containing
the entire collection of Inductel dictionaries with definitions.
- 1987: Inductel shipped its first products: The Inductel Standard Dictionary on diskettes for MS-DOS, and the Concise Dictionary of 26
Languages on diskettes for MS-DOS.
Contact Inductel
By e-mail: inductel@earthlink.net
By telephone: (408) 866-8016 (San Jose, CA, USA)
By postal mail: Inductel Inc.
17537 Blanchard Dr.
Monte Sereno, CA 95030, USA
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