History of NI Logo John Graff 1976 – First company logo. Dr. T and Jeff Kodosky trace an oval from an office trash can to create the design of the first NI logo. 1979 – First stylized logo with the “NI Eagle” logomark. NI paid an agency called The Marketing Group out of Dallas $1500 […]
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by Carsten Thomsen Yes, it’s the slide rule, a basic tool for engineering for many years before the days of electronic calculators. When I visited Dr. T in July 2021, he showed me his slide rule which had powered him though his engineering and physics studies. Unfortunately, it had disappeared, but was returned after being […]
Thanks to Vance Carter for this photo and Ash Razdan for helping identify people, time and location. Location: National Instruments facility on 12109 Technology Blvd, Austin TX 78759. The space was leased in an office strip mall, and if I recall correctly, other companies in the space included Austin-based PC clone manufacturer CompuAdd corporation. The […]
Thanks to Nick Velychko from New Zealand (who started with LabVIEW 3.1) for converting the LabVIEW 5 code to LabVIEW 2018. So here it is a video screen capture live on YouTube: and if you want to customize it yourself, Nick’s source code (LabVIEW 2018) is available at the following link. https://www.dropbox.com/s/xtsan6a97pk1jsa/Nick%20-%20Who%20wants%20to%20be_2018.zip?dl=0 (Does not run […]
Remember a company meeting in the late 1990s featuring a LabVIEW version of the famous British TV show? On a recent “archeological dig”, I found the original LabVIEW source code for the game show: in LabVIEW 5.0. We need your help for the following: Please help us upgrade it to a more modern version of […]
NI Earnings release for Q2 2021 is scheduled for July 29, 2021 after market close, followed by the earnings call at 4 p.m. CDT the same day. The virtual investor conference will be held on August 17, 2021 from 9 to 11 a.m. CDT. Last years 2020 investors conference gave an excellent overview of the […]
by Carsten Thomsen Due to COVID-19 NI Week 2021 is again replaced with a four-hour, on-line session, NI Connect. The session is streamed live in three major time zones, and leads off with a one hour and 40 minute keynote followed by two parallel tracks each with four subjects. One track is primarily product focused, […]
Thanks to Jeff Kodosky for sharing this June 2020 article in the Proceedings of ACM on Programming Languagues about the history of LabVIEW. In it, you may find a lot of nuggets, including why it originally was not targeted as a language, but became it anyway. You will also read about the attempts, not always […]
By Scott Jordan At the first LabVIEW User Group meeting in 1989, I presented briefly on my LabVIEW-based development of the Digital Gradient Search, an approach used for physically aligning optical and photonic devices for testing and manufacturing. The technique quickly became the standard approach for that industry and still dominates today— and I’ve kept […]