Enthought
software company
Enthought, Inc. is a software company based in Austin, Texas that develops scientific and analytic computing solutions. It is well known for the early development and maintenance of the SciPy library of mathematics, science, and engineering algorithms and for its Python for scientific computing distribution Enthought Canopy (formerly EPD). Enthought specializes in advanced artificial intelligence solutions for R&D-critical sectors, including advanced materials, specialty chemicals, electronics, semiconductors, life sciences, energy, and manufacturing.
The company was founded in 2001 by Travis Vaught and Eric Jones.
Open source software
Enthought publishes a large portion of the code as open-source software under a BSD-style license.
Enthought Canopy is a Python for scientific and analytic computing distribution and analysis environment, available for free and under a commercial license.
The Enthought Tool Suite open source software projects include:
Traits: A manifest type definition library for Python that provides initialization, validation, delegation, notification, and visualization. The Traits package is the foundation of the Enthought Tool Suite, underlying almost all other packages.
TraitsUI: A UI layer that supports the visualization features of Traits.
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