Company of Science and Art (CoSA) was a small software company headquartered in
Providence, Rhode Island
Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. One of the oldest cities in New England, it was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a Reformed Baptist theologian and religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay ...
. It was founded in 1990 by Greg Deocampo (also a member of the video art collective
Emergency Broadcast Network
Emergency Broadcast Network is a multimedia performance group formed in 1991 that took its name from the Emergency Broadcast System. The founders were Rhode Island School of Design graduates Joshua Pearson, Gardner Post, and Brian Kane (author ...
), David Foster, David Herbstman, and David Simons. William J. O'Farrell became its CEO in 1990. It operated for slightly less than three years.
However, during its brief existence, CoSA created the category-defining
After Effects
Adobe After Effects is a digital visual effects, motion graphics, and compositing application developed by Adobe Inc., and used in the post-production process of film making, video games and television production. Among other things, After Eff ...
desktop animation and compositing program, releasing version 1.0 in 1992. In 1993, CoSA was acquired by the
Aldus Corporation
Aldus Corporation was an American software company best known for its pioneering desktop publishing (DTP) software. PageMaker, the company's most well-known product, ushered in the modern era of desktop computers such as the Macintosh seeing ...
;
Aldus was in turn acquired by
Adobe
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in 1994. The name is currently used by an unrelated visual effects company,
CoSA VFX
Cosa was a Latin colony founded in southwestern Tuscany in 273 BC, on land confiscated from the Etruscans, to solidify the control of the Romans and offer the Republic a protected port.
The Etruscan site (called ''Cusi'' or ''Cosia'') may have ...
.
Before After Effects, in 1991, CoSA published PACo—one of the first cross-platform streaming digital video applications.
References
External links
CoSA After Effects 1.0Animated CoSA Logo
Defunct software companies of the United States
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