Quick links:
Famous tasks:
www.whiskercontrol.com/whatsnew.shtml
Publications
There is an incomplete list of publications involving Whisker, or involving other software written by Rudolf Cardinal and/or Mike Aitken, the authors of Whisker.
Example scripts
Example scripts in Perl and Python are also given.
Current versions
For detailed version information on each project, see the version tracker files.
There are other tasks that are not yet commercially packaged.
History
This is the history of the Whisker core project (WhiskerServer). For details of the tasks available with Whisker, see Tasks and Support.
| July 2011 | Version 4.0 with video support. |
| January 2009 | Version 3.0 with support for Windows Vista and UPDD v4.1. |
| January 2006 | Whisker is in use by a dozen universities, three government agencies, and eight commercial organizations including three of the world's top ten drug companies. |
| November 2005 | Support for BNC hardware. |
| April 2005 | Support for ABET hardware. |
| October 2004 | Support for digital I/O devices wired to serial ports. |
| July 2004 | Preclinical section of Cambridge Cognition Ltd sold to Campden Instruments Ltd, Leicester, a UK subsidiary of the Lafayette Instrument Company, Indiana, USA. Campden therefore now hold the distribution rights for Whisker and related CUTS products. |
| August 2003 | Variable screen borders, disk logs, communication log limits, authentication |
| June 2003 | Background events |
| February 2003 | Help system; CPU limits |
| October 2002 | Support for ICS digital I/O cards |
| April 2002 | Distribution agreement finalized with Cambridge Cognition Ltd (CCL), Tunbridge Court, Tunbridge Lane, Bottisham, Cambridge CB5 9DU, UK. [The company was previously CeNeS Cognition, a division of CeNeS Pharmaceuticals plc, Compass House, Vision Park, Chivers Way, Histon, Cambridge CB4 9ZR, UK, but spun off as a company in its own right in 2002.] |
| March 2002 | IANA registered port number 3233; support for Advantech digital I/O cards |
| May 2001 | Copyright transferred to Cambridge University Technical Services (CUTS) Ltd, The Old Schools, Trinity Lane, Cambridge CB2 1TN, UK [or, 16 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1TN]. CUTS is a company wholly owned by the Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge. |
| 6 September 2001 | Version 2.3 with new threading structure and command language. |
| April 2001 | Version 2.2 (multimedia and basic edition) completed and installed in the Behavioural & Cognitive Neuroscience Group, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge. In addition to digital I/O devices, Whisker now supports graphical output, sound output, touchscreens, mouse and keyboard input. |
| 15 April 2001 | Touchscreen support. |
| 3 April 2001 | Version 2.1 with DirectDraw support and device definition files. |
| 26 Mar 2001 | Multiple monitor support. |
| 22 January 2001 | Multithreading. |
| 10 January 2001 | Display support. |
| 31 December 2000 | Audio support. |
| 28 Aug 2000 | High-resolution internal timers. |
| 16 Aug 2000 | Client-client communication. |
| 3 April 2000 | Process priority configuration. End of version 1 development. |
| 19 Mar 2000 | Failsafe support. |
| 12 Mar 2000 | Performance monitoring. |
| 6 February 2000 | Registry-based configuration of DIO boards. |
| 3 February 2000 | Version 1.1 went live in the Behavioural & Cognitive Neuroscience Group, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, supporting digital I/O devices, with a second-order IVSA client. |
| 25 January 2000 | Connected to operant chambers; support for multiple DIO boards. |
| 21 December 1999 | Transition to Windows SDI architecture and two-pane user interface complete. |
| 6 November 1999 | Client architecture and language mostly complete. |
| 22 September 1999 | Successful networking. |
| 17 September 1999 | Hardware control and core system up. |
| 26 Aug 1999 | Design started. |
