Software interfaces are the digital equivalent of plugs and sockets.
*The company would also be required to disclose the software interfaces that allow programmers to link their programs to Windows.
Dr. Redish, whose background is in linguistics, is a usability consultant specializing in Web sites and software interfaces.
Earlier versions of iOS will possibly continue to use Google's map data, because the new app uses different software interfaces, or APIs.
So it was no surprise that many of the phones were iPhone clones — with touch screens, sleek flat shapes and spare software interfaces.
By 1985, she had established an independent usability laboratory and was testing software interfaces and documentation for companies like I.B.M. and Sony.
*A requirement that Microsoft share with other companies any technical information about Windows, including software interfaces, that the system engineers are sharing with other people at Microsoft.
Nowadays, it publishes details of more than 1,500 software interfaces on the web, to help third-party developers.
Another tool that should reduce the strain on programmers, according to Mr. Wladawsky-Berger, is the rise of more common software standards, a trend led by the Internet and the Web, with its open communications protocols and software interfaces.
Because I.B.M. and its rivals -- Hitachi, Sun Microsystems and Network Appliance -- have not agreed to share technology to allow EMC programs to run on and control their machines, EMC developed its own software interfaces, Mr. Hollis said.
Accelerator device software interfaces are implemented as objects in C++.
