an Open Source Probabilistic Information Retrieval library, a highly adaptable toolkit to allow developers to easily add advanced indexing and search facilities to their own applications.
a modern alternative to object middleware such as CORBA™ or COM/DCOM/COM+. Ice is easy to learn, yet provides a powerful network infrastructure for demanding technical applications.
a way of representing structural information as diagrams of abstract graphs and networks. Automatic graph drawing has many important applications in software engineering, database and web design, networking, and in visual interfaces for many other domains
a class library that provides some features that are usually common for object oriented programming languages like Java or Python, but not for C++ (mark-sweep garbage collector...)