He left in 1989, at age 22, to found Paper Software, a 3-D graphics company.
For this paper, software to optimize the system parameters for gas-generator cycle engines was developed.
As McCue points out, however, the current Google Desktop Sidebar is a descendant of the ideas first introduced by Paper Software's application.
McCue left IBM in 1989 to found his first company, Paper Software, which produced a launch-pad style toolbar called SideBar for Microsoft Windows 3.1.
He joined Netscape after their successful acquisition of the first company he founded, Paper Software, a leader in 3-D browser technology.
In this paper, software is said to be interactive if the delay due to computations is of the order of a few seconds at the most.
Paper Software's next product was WebFX, a plug-in for Netscape's Web browser that provided a three-dimensional interface for the World Wide Web using a superset of HTML known as VRML virtual reality modeling language".
His very first startup had been Paper Software, during the first wave of pen computing startups in the early 1990s, so when the iPad came along, he knew what he had to do.
In this paper, software metrics algorithms and their primary constructions have been developed for estimating the metrics from the UML/class diagrams.
In this episode of Founder Stories with Chris Dixon, you'll hear them geek out about programming video games for the TI99 in Extended Basic, how McCue went to IBM instead of college, discuss how he made ends meet when money was tight, how that situation changed a million times over, and the idea behind his first startup, Paper Software.
