Welcome Diego!

In our pursuit of finding passionate professionals, who like us, look forward to building tools that simplify our daily lives, we came across Diego Evin, who has recently joined the Corvalius Research and Development division.

Diego has been specializing on the study and application of Computer Learning technology for the last 10 years, in order to solve problems in the Biomedical and Speech Recognition fields. Therefore, he was an ideal candidate for the Corvalius Research and Development division. Kindly known to us as Labs + Academics.

Diego has a bachelor’s degree in Bioengineering and a PhD in Computer Science. Before joining us, he had a postdoctoral internship at Stanford Research International, and also at CONICET, where he worked at the Sensory Research Lab at the Institute of Applied Neuroscience.

With a great deal of published articles circulating the bioengineering field, his research primarily focuses on automatic speech recognition, monitoring and diagnostics of vital signs and medical images.

Among his main contributions to the technological transfer field are his developments to a sound measurement system for the work place, an automatic speech recognition system, and the development of tools for forensic voice analysis.

In the teaching field, he taught the university level course “Artificial Intelligence and Computer Intelligence” at the Universidad Nacional de Entre Rios (2004-2012) and was also the Professor for the graduate level course “Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Topics Applied to Biomedical Engineering: Artificial Intelligence Techniques”, which was part of the Biomedical Engineering Masters Program (2011).

Want to join Diego and the rest of the team? Let us know.

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The Argentine company has taken its relationship with Microsoft to an international level, by joining the Visual Studio Industry Partner Program so as to obtain exclusive access to technology.

Buenos Aires, Friday, March 2^nd, 2012. – Codealike, a company whose aim is to bring productivity solutions to the software industry, announced just today that it is now one of Microsoft Visual Studio Industry Partners (VSIP), thus being the first Argentine Company that joins the program. The Visual Studio Industry Partner program was created at Microsoft`s main office in Redmond, United States of America, with the objective of allowing companies to have exclusive access to key technology. At the same time, it encourages companies to get quality standards that agree with the specifications established by Visual Studio, which is now the software development application mostly used by Fortune 1000 enterprises.

Being current software development teams highly collaborative, interruptions are a real problem to programmers, who sometimes waste the time equivalent to a whole month of their work in solving them. Codealike allows developers both to optimize collaboration and to recover from interruptions, thus improving their productivity. The idea is to give developers and managers some tools to administrate their time more efficiently and obtain metrics which have been, up to now, impossible to reach.

Consequently, Codelike becomes into the first Argentine company to join the Alliance and guarantee their users to have high quality products.

Federico Lois, one of Codealike´s founders, said: “By being part of the Visual Studio Industry Partner Program, we are able to make development processes faster because we have easy access to technical specifications and validations directly from the Product Team in Redmond. At the same time, we can guarantee our clients that we offer high quality products and that they will be able to get all future updates carried out by Visual Studio from us”. Furthermore, Sebastian Fernandez Quezada, another Codealike´s founder highlighted the importance of the agreement by stating: “There are approximately 150 companies around the world forming part of this Program created by Microsoft, including IBM, Borland, Intel and HP. Codealike is not only the first Argentine company to join the program, but also one of the few Latin American ones in doing so.”. Regarding the agreement Tom Lindeman, Director of the Visual Studio Industry Partner Program asserted “We are pleased to have Corvalius join the VSIP Program as the first Argentinian company and bring more depth to the Visual Studio ecosystem with Codealike”.

This agreement is additional to the one performed last January by Codealike and Microsoft in respect to Windows Azure, Microsoft´s cloud computing platform, by means of which the local company was able to start getting strategic technical access and support in Latin America and Redmond through the CSV program.

Codealike is accelerated by Wayra, which is the initiative launched by Grupo Telefónica in 2011.

For more information visit: http://www.codealike.com

Press Contact: press@corvalius.com

Codealike is a company from Corvalius.

A new product based on new technologies, which is integrated to Visual Studio, will help software developers deal with collaboration issues and interruptions.

Buenos Aires, Wednesday, November 17, 2011. - Achieving a productive collaboration and dealing with interruptions is certainly an issue for knowledge workers. When it comes to software development, some metrics indicate that wasted time by an average developer in collaboration issues reaches near 50%, while some other studies show that more than an hour a day is wasted dealing with interruptions alone.

Codealike is a SaaS solution that brings real‐time collaboration into Visual Studio 2010. That means that Microsoft Developers, which are supposed to be near 2 million, will have better tools when dealing with interruptions and collaboration issues. Codealike includes features like instant messaging, an integrated searching tool, post and reply Q&A, a timeline that helps understand changes in the source code and, most important, Live collaboration in the source code. This last feature enables multiple developers participate, through Internet, in the same piece of code, at the same time.

According to one of the founders:

“Codealike seizes the Visual Studio context and only with that, developers can find answers to their questions in a way that really fits their needs. As we can also let the developer find other developers with the same interests, we encourage the user to enjoy the likelihood of obtaining qualified help”.

While the founders expect to hit the market in March with the full service, as from Monday they will be giving a limited amount of pre‐release all‐access passes to early subscribers. Good news includes also Microsoft MVP users, who will get the service for free in its premium version for an unlimited period of time.

Codealike is based on two technologies developed by Corvalius: beWeeVee SDK, which allows .NET developers to integrate live collaboration to any software, and eAuth, a SaaS that enables social sign‐in in Desktop and Web‐ based applications.

Codealike is an Startup accelerated by Wayra, the Latin‐America oriented accelerator founded this year by Telefónica.

More information at: Codealike Web Site

To all users,

Given that Etherpad was bought and shutdown by Google, Etherpad users are now looking for alternatives. As the beWeeVee Notepad Techdemo support some of the features that Etherpad had constructed over their 10 months of operations it looks natural that some more users gravitate toward using it as an alternative.

Yesterday, when the word came to us from one of our users, that Etherpad was effectively shutting down on March we recognized that a void was created when more users started to use beWeeVee Notepad Tech-Demo as a substitute for it. beWeeVee as a technology is very important for Corvalius, as such we will continue to provide more features and also enhance our Software Development Kit for developers to create amazing application with it.

beWeeVee from the start has been conceived as a technology aimed at enhancing Desktop applications (like for example: beWeeVee for Visual Studio ) with real-time collaborative features (co-operation). The Tech-Demo aims to show those looking to implement those features in their software what could be possible using the Software Development Kit.

beWeeVee is a .Net technology so for the time being, the beWeeVee Notepad will continue be released on the Silverlight platform.

We would definitely want to hear your feedback and act accordingly on the technology roadmap. Visit us at http://beweevee.uservoice.com/.

Sincerely,
The beWeeVee Team @Corvalius