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.fi The Illiad, by Homer | Aegis is the term used for the armor of Zeus and of Athena, from which the expression “under the aegis of” meaning “under the protection of” is derived. | 1793 |
Aegis Combat System | An integrated combat system built to defend against advanced air, surface, and subsurface threats. | 1973 |
Aegis | AIDS Education Global Information System | mid-1980s |
Aegis Operating System | A Unix variant that was used on Apollo workstations before Apollo was bought by Hewlett Packard. | late-1980s? |
Aegis | A Software Configuration Management System designed to protect a project's source code repository, and defend it from bad code. | 1991 |
.fi Aegis | Australian Environmental Geographic Information System | 1994 |
Aegis Secure Bootstrap System | Increases the security of the boot process by ensuring the integrity of bootstrap code. It does this by constructing a chain of integrity checks, beginning at power-on and continuing until the final transfer of control from the bootstrap components to the operating system itself. | 1996 |
Aegis Consulting | Providing strategic information systems consulting services to leading companies in the Health Care industry. | 1996 |
Aegis Operating System Kernel | A kernel built around the idea of an exo-kernel. An evolution from micro-kernels, exo-kernels export a virtual machine that securely multiplexes resourses among mutually distrusting applications. | 2000 (?) |
Aegis Java Virtual Machine | An open source effort to develop a lightweight, secure virtual machine for executing Java bytecode. | 2002 |
Aegis | Air-launched Earth-observing Ground Information System. Carlton University student project to design a rapidly deployable air launched micro-satellite system for the purpose of Earth observation. | 2002 |
Aegis | Academic Excellence and Geographic Information Systems. A multidisciplinary effort to introduce students in a variety of lower division Arts and Sciences courses to methods of GIS data gathering, analysis, and representation. | 2003 |
Aegis Virus Scanner | Aegis supports scanning of subdirectories, hidden files and .zip and .tar archive files, and drag-and-drop of files from the Nautilus file browser, or your Gnome desktop. When a virus is detected you can choose to delete, quarantine or rename the file. | 2003 |
Aegis | European Genebank Integration System. The overall goal of this project is to ensure conservation and continuing use of existing crop genetic diversity in Europe. | 2003 |
Search Google | This like to the left will search google for the terms aegis project to find more projects named “aegis”, most of which have nothing to to with protections or defences. |
If you manage another “Aegis” project, or you know of one, drop me a line and I will add it to this list.