Pithecanthropus Consulting was founded to help our clients take advantage of opportunities generated by the Internet, World Wide Web, and distributed cross platform computing strategies.

Pithecanthropus Consulting has particular experience, expertise and interest in:
-- consulting about the strategic implications of Java and other Web oriented technologies;
-- standards (Pithecanthropus is leading Java and related Web portability standards efforts within ISO/IEC based on previous experience with numerous software standards projects);
-- interpreters (for Java and other languages on a wide variety of platforms and environments);
-- applications, components, add-ins and applets (using existing components available on the Web or from our own libraries to cost effectively build to your needs);
-- Web page design, implementation, HTML, scanning, text conversion and manipulation;
-- software distribution and updating (Pithecanthropus has its own proprietary technology for license checking and software distribution which can be incorporated into your products);
-- security, reliability, trusted systems (Pithecanthropus staff have worked with DoD and commercial systems where software security and trusted execution was a top priority); and
-- test suites for multiple platform applications (to ensure robustness and correctness).

Computing is changing more rapidly than ever before while at the same time there is more legacy software that keeps us linked to the past. Pithecanthropus Consulting can help with change planning and change management. Organizations must determine a strategic path and then implement the tactics. Pithecanthropus can help with determining that strategy and then help wherever needed until your own staff is ready to step in. This means the strategy can be determined based on what you need for the future rather than on your current limitations.

Dr. Robert Mathis has B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Ohio State. He has been a Professor of Computer Science, director of major DoD software projects, founder of a commercial software engineering laboratory, active in international standardization (for both Ada and Lisp), and a successful consultant on large software systems development. As a Principal Consultant with Pithecanthropus, Bob provides leadership in strategy formulation and standards.

Karl Nyberg has S.B. and S.M. degrees from MIT. He has run an Internet service company and a successful publishing company. He has also been a successful consultant in computer security, electronic banking, large software systems development, and character recognition technology. As a Principal Consultant with Pithecanthropus, Karl provides leadership in implementation and testing of Java and other Internet technologies.

Our evolutionary ancestor pithecanthropus lived an estimated 800,000 years ago in what is now called Indonesia and may have been the first programmer to drink coffee.