James Truchard, founder and CEO of National Instruments, Austin/TX, was named as one of the 50 most influential people in the instrument and control industry from the US magazine INTech. Dr. Truchard was recognized for pioneering the concept of virtual instrumentation, starting more than 20 years ago on the Apple Macintosh platform with the legendary software package Labview, an intuitive graphical user interface and a true breakthrough. James Truchard’s motto “the software is the instrument” has paved the way for a remarkably global development in this field of application. The revolutionary concept has made a small garage-type, software-design shop to the market leader in virtual instrumentation (currently 3,000 employees) and a leading supplier of outstanding, modular hardware.
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