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Release
March/April 2009: Release of SINGULAR version 3-1-0. More
Jenks Prize
July 2004: The Richard D. Jenks Prize for Excellence in Software Engineering for Computer Algebra was awarded to the Singular team. More
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A Short History of SINGULAR
| 1984 | Greuel/Pfister: Existence of complete intersection singularities which are not quasi-homogeneous, but Poincare-complex exact? |
| 1987 | Pfister et al (Humboldt Uni Berlin): Buchmora for Atari in Modula-2: Existence shown. |
| 1989 | Buchmora renamed to Singular. Developed jointly by groups from Berlin (Pfister) and Kaiserslautern (Greuel). |
| 1990 | Ported to Unix; First user manual. |
| 1993 | Rewritten in C; Singular programming language - Libraries. |
| 1996 | Multivariate polynomial factorization; gcd. |
| 1997 | Singular release 1.0 (multivariate polynomial factorization; gcd, syzygies, resolutions, communication links). |
| 1998 | Singular release 1.2 (faster, primary decomposition, normalization). |
| 1999 | Singular release 1.4 (much faster, numerical data types and algorithms, monodromy, moduli of space curves, debugger). |
| 2001 | Singular release 2.0 |
| 2002 | Textbook "A Singular Introduction to Commutative Algebra" appeared at Springer Verlag (includes a CD containing a distribution of Singular version 2.0.3). |
| 2004 | Richard D. Jenks Memorial Prize for Excellence in Software Engineering for Computer Algebra awarded to the Singular team. |
| 2005 | Singular release 3.0 (dynamic modules, name spaces, noncommutative computations, resolution of singularities, absolute factorization, etc.) |
| 2007 | Second edition of the textbook "A Singular Introduction to Commutative Algebra" appeared at Springer Verlag (includes a CD containing a distribution of Singular version 3.0.3). |
Supported by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Stiftung Rheinland-Pfalz für Innovation, Volkswagen Foundation