Brief Description
Similix Corporation specializes in supporting lawyers, engineers, and businesses in evaluating possible infringement of software copyrights and other intellectual property. Similix's patented technology is based on algorithms developed in MOSS (for Measure of Software Similarity), which has been widely used by thousands of academic institutions for over a decade. Similix's product, MossPlus, is routinely used in multi-million dollar copyright and criminal theft cases to determine whether and which parts of large bodies of software have been copied, modified, or replaced. MossPlus is also often used before bringing legal action to evaluate the merits of a case.
The company was founded by Dr. Alex Aiken, who co-invented the technology as a professor in the UC Berkeley Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences.
Timeline
- 2003. Company founded.
Inventors
Alexander Aiken, Joel Auslander, Steve Fink, Saul Schleimer, Anthony Tomasic, Daniel Wilkerson