Advanced Computer Techniques
Advanced Computer Techniques (ACT) was a computer software company most active from the early 1960s through the early 1990s that made software products, especially language compilers and related tools. It also engaged in information technology consulting, hosted service bureaus, and provided applications and services for behavioral health providers. ACT had two subsidiaries of note, InterACT and Creative Socio-Medics.
| Company type | Public |
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| Nasdaq: ACTP | |
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| Founded | New York City (April 1962) |
| Founder | Charles Philip Lecht |
| Defunct | 1994 (effectively) |
| Fate | Inactive |
| Headquarters | New York City , United States |
Number of locations | several including Washington, D.C.; California; Canada; Milan, Italy. |
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| Products | Compilers and related language development tools; applications systems for commercial data processing |
| Services | Behavioral health services, others |
| Revenue | $18 million (1982, equivalent to $55 million today) |
Number of employees | over 300 (1981) |
| Divisions | Applications; Systems; Consulting; Federal; Publishing; BASE; Informa-Tab |
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Both writer Katharine Davis Fishman, in her 1981 book The Computer Establishment, and computer science historian Martin Campbell-Kelly, in his 2003 volume From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog: A History of the Software Industry, have considered ACT an exemplar of the independent, middle-sized software development firms of its era, and the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota has also viewed the company's history as important.