Infolytica Corporation

Founded in 1978, Infolytica Corporation was the first software company to employ the finite element method (FEA) to simulate electromagnetic fields. Dr. Peter Silvester, Dr. Ernest Freeman and Dr. David Lowther were at the forefront of this sophisticated technique, publishing many articles and books on the topic. Their passion lead to the methodologies which pushed the limits of what complex computations could be performed on a PDP-11, the first platform to run MagNet. Dr. Jon Webb joined the company in 1986.