ABOUT TERAGRAM: ETYMOLOGY

The etymology of the word Teragram reflects the mission of Teragram Corporation:

Tera- has its roots in the Greek meaning monster. The usage of the prefix tera- today harkens back to this sense.

tera- in Computer Science is a combining form, used in the names for units of measure equal to 2⁴⁰ = 1,099,511,627,776. It is also an abbreviation for the factor 10¹² (one trillion).

-gram has its roots in Latin, French, and Greek. In addition to being a unit of mass, -gram is a combining form for nouns which relate to something written down, drawn, or recorded.

In other words, Teragram provides solutions to the monstrous quantities of information available electronically today!

Information is growing at an exponential rate. Data quantities have ballooned very quickly from kilobytes (thousands of bytes), to megabytes (millions of bytes), and now gigabytes (billions of bytes). The age of TERABYTES (trillions of bytes) is already upon us. Traditional technologies collapse under such demanding conditions. Teragram's proprietary technologies enable information users to confidently enter this new data age.

While other approaches essentially still process information by the bit or byte, Teragram's unique technologies enable richer processing at the level of words, Linguistic relations, and word meanings. Teragram Solutions are also scalable to huge quantities of information, providing the same processing speed for any amount of data, while still encoding that data in a form which is highly compressed. Teragram's enabling technologies offer the world's fastest, most compact, and scalable solutions to the numerous challenges of today's information storage, meaning extraction, text compression, and text correction needs.

Teragram Corporation is the maker of advanced Linguistic products which have been proven to be effective in such high-demand environments as AltaVista's online-search website and their Discovery software. Teragram solutions are provided to manufacturers, who may then bundle the peerless technologies within their own applications. Teragram's products are also available to application developers, for whom the technologies are provided as software development kits with application programming interfaces for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX. In addition to licensing agreements, Teragram provides the technical support and consulting services that ensure the unique and unbeatable deployment of Teragram Solutions. Teragram's highly trained professionals provide the answers for particular software needs and platform requirements.

Teragram also offers end-users a variety of solutions for information management and composition. These products are available through several channels, for single and multiples users. For corporate, governmental, and educational environments, Teragram delivers a variety of site arrangements.