From Marc_Pesendorfer at golder.com Mon Aug 10 00:54:55 2009
From: Marc_Pesendorfer at golder.com (Pesendorfer, Marc)
Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 21:54:55 -0700


Subject: IGOR - the roots
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Hi,

I will be teaching some courses in hydrogeology for the mining industry this fall and as an intense IGOR user I want to present the software as sort of a "State of the Art Data Analysis Tool" including practical examples with the audience. However, there are some questions, which surely will be asked and which I have (currently) no answer for:

1) What does the name "IGOR" stand for?

2) What is the history of IGOR? Who developed it, when (first official version) and for what purpose (spectrometry??) ?

Thanks a lot for your help

Regards, Marc