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Name :
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I.C.B. S.r.l.
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Headquarters :
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Via ZINI, 2 TRADATE (VA) - ITALY
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Type :
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PRIVATE
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Range of activity :
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SOFTWARE ENGENEERING
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Number of subordinates :
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45 (April 2002)
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Date of birth :
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2 January 1986
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Qualifications :
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WEB SITE: ICB s.r.l Tel. 0331/811431
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Our firm can offer advice on the following technical subjects:
- Application Software
- Basic Software
- Multimedia Software
- Quality Control
- Training
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Our main customers are leader Italian manufacturers or Public Companies and are summarised in the following alphabetically ordered list:
- Agusta/Westland
- Conseil de l'Union Européenne
- Elsag
- Galileo Avionica
- Ing. C. Olivetti & C.
- Omnitel Pronto Italia
- SIAB Italia & SIAB France
- Syntax Processing
As subcontractors of Olivetti and Agusta we took part in development of European Projects.
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Hardware :
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Operating Systems :
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Networking :
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MICROSOFT LAN MANAGER
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Languages :
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Data Base :
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DB II, III, IV
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INFORMIX
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OPEN INGRES
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ACCESS
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ORACLE
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Special Environments :
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AUTHORWARE
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GTT/TYX
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PERSPECTIVE PASCAL
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The subject we could help mainly are:
- Aeronautical manufacturers
- Credit Institutes
- Industrial and Commercial Businesses
Developing:
- Applications for Self Service Tellers
- Applications for Point of sales
- Avionics software
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Customer:
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AGUSTA Group
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Description:
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Agusta S.p.A. is the greatest Italian helicopters producer and collaborate with the most important world aeronautical manufacturers. It is greatly involved in the production of avionics software and hardware tools.
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Activities:
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- Development of the software for the EH-101 GBDS PI 1.2 HCI package in an Ingress-UNIX platform and in the sphere of an international project between Agusta and Aerospace
- Development of the software for the NFH Mission Simulator
- Development of the software for the S211 HUMS-OPSW System and for the Ground Monitoring System software
- Development of the Collaborative Maintenance / Support Environment. The project was based on a Multimedia Personal Computer integrated with the PCC-VIDEO H.320-ISDN Communication kit.
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- auto adjournment of the diagnostic instructions, worked out by the test programs;
- distance verification / update of the benches Software configurations (Basic SW and Test Programs);
- logistics / statistics programs for the evaluation of the defectiveness of the LRU and his components;
- real-time, audio and video assistance of the remote benches, from the Agusta centre.
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Customer:
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OLIVETTI Group
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Description:
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The Olivetti Group is the main Italian software producer and controls many subsidiaries in Italy and in the world.
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Activities:
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Image Processing with development of graphic tools with functions for editing and sizing images
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Development of software for managing and approving orders of a chain of hyper-markets, in IBM DB/DC environment
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Point of sales applications for automatic petrol sales
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Counter services (Trusts, Bonds etc.): ISO/OSI architecture for geographic X.25 networks and/or StarLan local networks for the integration of Heterogeneous Systems (mini and PC)
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Development of Self service terminals application packages releasing banking transactions executed on Automatic Teller systems in off-line, on-line, on/off-line environments
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Using its own hardware/software systems or the customer development environment, the company is able to realise solutions in the following areas:
- Firmware for peripheral controllers
- Software Drivers for peripherals under UNIX, MS-DOS and WINDOWS operating systems
- Diagnostic Programs
- Interface Libraries
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Customer:
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AGUSTA Group
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Description:
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Agusta S.p.A. is the greatest Italian helicopters producer and collaborate with the most important world aeronautical manufacturers. It is greatly involved in the production of avionics software and hardware tools.
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Activities:
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Customer:
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ELSAG BAILEY
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Description:
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Elsag Bailey S.p.A. is the main Italian Postal Systems and Robotics producer.
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Activities:
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Customer:
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ITALTEL Group
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Italtel S.p.a. is the primary Italian operator in the telecommunication systems.
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Activities:
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- Diagnostic Software for DMA channel, SCSI controller and PC/M component of the SUIP System CPU
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Customer:
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OLIVETTI Group
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Description:
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The Olivetti Group is the main Italian software producer and controls many subsidiaries in Italy and in the world.
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Activities:
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- Firmware development (I/O routines) for magnetic peripheral controllers (Hard Disk, Floppy Disk and Tape)
- Driver for scanner in SCO UNIX and porting under AT&T System V
- Drivers for Peripherals connected to the Self service banking terminals as badge reader/writer, printers, cash dispenser, etc.
- Functions Library to realise the connection between a Self Service Banking Terminal Application and hosts using various communication protocols
- Telecommunication software for fax, telephone and PC-FAX boards
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Customer:
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CONSEIL DE L'UNION EUROPEENNE
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Description:
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Division of information technology
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Activities:
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- Real time applications for community member of CEE.
The activity is developped in Bruxelles (Belgium)
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Thank to our great credibility in the environments where we co-operated we were requested to join in the development of many European Project pertaining to the ESPRIT II and followings.
The scenarios where we could operate are all those described in the previous chapters.
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Contractor:
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OLIVETTI Group
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Project Ref.:
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E.P. 2105 "MULTIWORKS" - Multimedia Integrated Workstation
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Activities:
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- Development of software drivers to handle, by the serial port, Multimedia peripherals as: Videodisk, Videocassette, Television Camera, etc.
- Support for the IM-AGE platform development
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Contractor:
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OLIVETTI Group
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Project Ref.:
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E.P. 2713 "MULTIWORKS" - Multimedia Integrated Workstation
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Activities:
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- Demonstration Multimedia Application used by Olivetti in the Bruxelles Esprit Conference including full-motion video and Hi-Fi sound
- Analysis, development of an audio editor UNIX driver under X_Windows
- Support of the development video-editor UNIX driver
- Support of the integration of CD WO file system
- Support of the integration of Motion JPEG Board
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Contractor:
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AGUSTA Group
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Project Ref.:
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E.P. 7703 ASSET - Advanced System and Software Engineering Technology
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Activities:
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- BOS Operating Environment evaluation
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Using its own hardware/software systems the company offers complete multimedia application solutions.
The main project realised can be located in the following areas:
- Advertising
- Automatic Banking
- Education
- Industrial Training
- Marketing Presentations
- Public Information Kiosk
Working with the client, I.C.B. analyses the application requirements, designs the story-board and gives advice on the use of graphics and on the user interface. I.C.B. collaborates with selected companies which specialise in producing video films and which can advise on aspects of artistic direction and editing. It can also advise on the suitability in terms of quality of tapes of existing video clips or those produced by the client. I.C.B. also collaborates with companies which specialise in the mastering and production of multimedia Support (Laser Disks, Worms, CD, etc.). If the multimedia application requires musical support, I.C.B. handles the issues of copyright and royalty payment. I.C.B. has in-house facilities to train client employees to maintain the application produced.
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OCCASIONAL COLLABORATIONS
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- Universita' di Siena Faculty of Letters on Human Communications Problems, Financed by the bank of Monte dei Paschi di Siena with technology contributions from Olivetti.
- Centro Nazionale Ricerche (CNR) Rome with the editors of GOLEM - a Multimedia Software magazine
Is on the forefront of Multimedia technology in that it works on the development of Operating Environment Software for Olivetti Multimedia Platforms within their research laboratories.
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MAIN APPLICATIONS PRODUCED
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Customer:
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Agusta Group
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Description:
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Agusta S.p.A. is the greatest Italian helicopters producer and collaborate with the most important world aeronautical manufacturers. It is greatly involved in the production of avionics software and hardware tools.
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Activities:
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- Computer Based Training for aeronautical personnel using text, graphical animation, MPEG full motion and compressed audio. The projects was based on a PC Wise platform, on the Professional Authorware package and Silicon Graphics terminals. In particular I.C.B. was develop Computer Based Training for the SF260TP aeroplane Ethiopia version, EH101 helicopter civil version, A129 helicopter, emergency procedures for AMX aeroplane, etc.
- Porting of a English Course from the PC Wise platform to the Professional Authorware package
- Porting of the ADES package from the UNIX platform to the MICROSOFT WINDOWS NT platform
- A multimedia system as support to the production
- A multimedia system as support to the marketing presentations, using dual screens
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Customer:
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ELSAG BAILEY
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Description:
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Elsag Bailey S.p.A. is the main Italian Postal Systems and Robotics producer.
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Activities:
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- Computer Based Training for Postal Systems Installations. The application used colour images taken from CD, photo CD and scanners, MPEG and Video for Windows full motion, audio compressed and audio from CD
- Various Marketing presentations, using colour images, photo CD, MPEG full motion, audio compressed and audio from CD
- Presentation for the World Aerospace Conference, in Turin
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Customer:
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KUWAIT PETROLEUM ITALIA (Q8)
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Description:
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Kuwait Petroleum is one the primary international oil company
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Activities:
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- A document archive and management system based on the ARCHEA Platform
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Customer:
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Musei Universitari Bolognesi
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Description:
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Italian Museums
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Activities:
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- Participation in the production of a computer based system to catalogue data and images in a three way consultation system (user, expert, researcher)
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Customer:
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OLIVETTI Group
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Description:
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The Olivetti Group is the main Italian software producer and controls many subsidiaries in Italy and in the world.
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Activities:
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- Participation in the development, quality control and documentation of the IM-AGE Platform
- Tourist Information Kiosk, using interactive multimedia stations with textual and audio-visual databases. The application used audio and full motion video to describe itineraries, resorts and entertainment. The application used Laser Disk, colour images taken from scanners
- Marketing Applications presented at Olivetti Week '92 in Rome using graphics, scanned colour images and compressed audio
- Consultation and Information Application for British Airways. The application used full motion video, graphics, scanned colour images and compressed audio
- A document archive and retrieval system demo based on the ARCHEA Platform, using various colour input devices (Video Camera, Laser Disk, Scanner, etc.) integrated in the system. I.C.B. handled the integration of colour image captured using the Video Logic DVA 4000
- Multimedia Application for Estate Agencies, running on Self Service Banking Terminals. The application used Laser Disk, colour images taken from scanners
- Tutorial for Envision systems. The application used colour images taken from CD, photo CD and scanners, MPEG and Video for Windows full motion, compressed audio and audio from CD
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The company is able to perform the quality control with programs which automatically generate the test units and verify the correct functioning of the software; the software areas involved are the following:
- Application Software
- Basic Software
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Customer:
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AGUSTA Group
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Description:
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Agusta S.p.A. is the greatest Italian helicopters producer and collaborate with the most important world aeronautical manufacturers. It is greatly involved in the production of avionics software and hardware tools.
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Activities:
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- Testing activity for the Navigation and Area Navigation software control system of the EH-101 Merlin helicopter
- Validation test for the Aircraft Monitoring System software of the EH-101 Merlin helicopter
- Testing for the NFH Mission Simulator
- Testing for the S211 HUMS-OPSW System and for the Ground Monitoring System software
- Diagnostic programs for MATS
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Customer:
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OLIVETTI Group
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Description:
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The Olivetti Group is the main Italian software producer and controls many subsidiaries in Italy and in the world.
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Activities:
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- Software for geographical and local area network
- Shell utilities
- Pascal and Basic languages for UNIX Operating System
- Libraries of integrated primitives for customising user programs
- Word Processing environments
- Electronic Mail
- Filing (information retrieval and archiving)
- Document conversion
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The experience gained in various sectors allows us to produce specialist courses orientated toward:
- the teaching of software and hardware techniques
- system and application software projects
- the teaching of multimedia languages and tools, as Toolbook, Visual Basic, Authorware, etc.
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