Press Release 2004-01-06

CLEAR METHODS PROVIDES ARCHITECTURE AND DEVELOPMENT FOR INTERACTIVE "LIVING CENTER"

Water language enables an unprecedented interactive environment for Alzheimer’s patients and caregivers

Cambridge, Mass., January 6, 2004 – Clear Methods (www.clearmethods.com), a startup offering advanced XML and Web services technology, has provided the application architecture and development for The Living Center, the centerpiece of THE FORGETTING: A Portrait of Alzheimer’s Web site. The Living Center is an online destination that relieves the stress of visiting with an Alzheimer’s patient by providing stimulating and engaging activities for the patient to enjoy.

The Living Center was created with the Water programming language. The Water language both simplifies complex software development and reduces the cost of downstream maintenance by easily incorporating changes. Water is an all-purpose language that replaces the dozens of languages and APIs normally required for complex Web-based applications.

The Living Center was designed by inventor and MIT professor Ted Selker in collaboration with Twin Cities Public Television. It offers a virtual living room in an American house, complete with fireplace, bookshelf, framed picture and map on the wall, and a window looking into the backyard. Each object is an activity or link to an activity, which can be engaged in by patients and their visitors. The Living Center may be viewed at http://www.pbs.org/theforgetting/livingcenter/.

About Clear Methods
Clear Methods provides enterprises and independent software vendors with advanced Web services technology and solutions that dramatically speed the creation of flexible business software. The Clear Methods Steam XML platform is a pure Web services environment that enables the use of XML throughout the software lifecycle. Steam XML provides a compact, uniform, standards-based commercial product set for the open Water language.

Founded in 2001, Clear Methods is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.