Waterloo Maple

Waterloo Maple Inc. is a Canadian software provider with headquarters in Waterloo, in the province of Ontario. He is known as the maker of Maple, a commercial computer algebra system and MapleSim simulation software and occurs under the name Maplesoft.

The company was founded under the name Waterloo Maple Software in April 1988. Its founders were Keith Geddes and Gaston Gonnet, both were professors at that time in the Symbolic Computation Group, a part of the computer science department of the University of Waterloo.

From July 1998 to August 2003 was the headquarters of the former Seagram Museum in Waterloo Maple. European offices there since August 2006 in Versailles, since April 2010 in Aachen, and since October 2013 in Cambridge.

In September 2009, the company was sold to the Japanese software retailer Cybernet Systems.

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