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In 1996, the SIRMA Group, a Bulgarian-Canadian artificial intelligence lab, initiated a research project to create a new, resizable-design CAD system. In 1998, after 80 man-years of development work, the SIRMA spin-off EngView Systems released its first version of EV Package Designer & Diemaker software. In 1999, EngView was awarded the prestigious European Information Technology Prize. Today, the Montreal-based company sells its software on four continents.