| 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 Operating System | A Unix variant that was used on Apollo workstations before Apollo was bought by Hewlett Packard. | 1980s |
| Aegis Animator | Try an Atari ST running the impressively powerful Aegis Animator ST. Full-scale, high-level computer animation has finally arrived for the Atari. | 1987 |
| Aegis | A Software Configuration Management System designed to protect a project's source code repository, and defend it from bad code. | 1991 |
| Aegis | Australian Environmental Geographic Information System | 1994 |
| Aegis | AIDS Education Global Information System | 1997-12-10 |
| 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 recourses among mutually distrusting applications. | 1997-12-11 |
| Abacus Systems | Help desk and defect management products. | 1998-01-30 |
| Gravity | Aegis is the name of the server software used by the Ragnarok Online MMORPG. | 1999-01-25 |
| Aegis Industrial Software | The digital mind of manufacturing™ | 1999-12-12 |
| 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. | 2001-04-07 |
| Aegis Consulting | Providing strategic information systems consulting services to leading companies in the Health Care industry. | 2001-04-10 |
| Aegis Java Virtual Machine | An open source effort to develop a lightweight, secure virtual machine for executing Java byte code. | 2002-03-29 |
| Aegis Environments | The Aegis Microbe Shield® technology protects active apparel and performance equipment by controlling bacteria and fungus. | 2003-06-23 |
| 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. | 2003-10-25 |
| 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. | 2004-01-04 |
| 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. | 2004-06-03 |
| Aarcsoft | Aegis is a resource management game set in a medieval fantasy world. | 2004-06-15 |
| 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. | 2004-06-25 |
| Aegisub | Typesetting for video subtitles. | 2005-11-04 |
| Search Google | The link to the left will search Google for the terms aegis project to find more projects named “aegis”, many of which have nothing to to with protections or defenses. |
If you manage another “Aegis” project, or you know of one, drop me a line and I will add it to this list.
 | The beautiful graphics on this web site are by Grégory Delattre. | Return to the Aegis home page. |
|