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September 2024 The foundational video from Yost's Mt. Tamalpais video series was featured at the Bolinas Film Festival.
August 2024 Gary Yost released a series of 39 original musical videos about Mt. Tamalpais called 'Songs from the Last Place', inspired by Lew Welch's 'The Song Mt. Tamalpais Sings'.
April 2024
Hexagonal architecture
Cockburn published a comprehensive book on hexagonal architecture, co-authored with Juan Manuel Garrido de Paz
2023 MISRA C++:2023 released, providing guidelines for the use of C++17 in critical systems.
2023 MISRA C:2023 released as the 2nd Revision of MISRA C:2012, integrating amendments AMD2, AMD3, and AMD4, plus technical corrigendum 2 (TC2), and adding support for C11 and C18 language features.
2022
Interactive Disassembler
Hex-Rays is acquired by a group of investors led by Smartfin, with co-investors including a Belgian public holding company and the Walloon public investment firm Regional Investment Company of Wallonia (SRIW).
2021 MISRA transitioned to being managed by the MISRA Consortium Limited, an independent not-for-profit entity, marking a significant organizational restructuring.
2021 Inside COVID19 was nominated for the Emmy Awards in the Outstanding Interactive Program category.
2021 Inside COVID19 was named a Webby Awards Honoree and was selected to be featured in the SIGGRAPH VR Theater.
February 2021 Inside COVID19 VR documentary won the Festival of International Virtual & Augmented Reality Stories 'People's Choice' award for best immersive video.
2020 Yost was interviewed about his life's experience in CGI on the 300th episode of the CG Garage VFX podcast.
2020 WisdomVR Project launched the stereoscopic 360° documentary 'Inside COVID19', funded by Oculus, which told the story of an American ER doctor's experience with the novel coronavirus.
2019 MISRA C:2019 released as the 1st Revision of MISRA C:2012, incorporating amendment 1 (AMD1) and technical corrigendum 1 (TC1), with additional security guidelines.
2019 Gary Yost launched the nonprofit WisdomVR Project as a 501(c)(3) with strategic partnership support from Oculus VR and the Long Now Foundation.
2019 Won the Best Indie Filmmaker reader's choice award in Marin County from the Pacific Sun newspaper and began working in immersive cinema, serving as director of photography for 'Circle of Dreams' with The Residents art collective.
2018 Won the Best Indie Filmmaker reader's choice award in Marin County from the Pacific Sun newspaper.
2017 Received the Mill Valley Creative Achievement 'Milley' award from the Mill Valley Arts Commission.
2016 Served as a judge for the LA-based Timelapse Film Festival alongside Godfrey Reggio.
2015 Began working on documentary films documenting the cultural life of Fijians.
October 7 2015
PragmaDev Studio
Release of version 5.x, featuring a new look and feel, and reorganized modules: Specifier, Developer, Tester, and Tracer.
2013 Yost joined Rolf Herken's Mine Innovation as an engineering advisor.
2012 MISRA C:2012 (3rd Edition) released, adding support for C99 language features, improved strong typing model, and analysis keywords.
2012 Created the viral video 'A Day in the Life of a Fire Lookout' about the Gardner Fire Lookout on Mt. Tamalpais, which won a Vimeo Staff Pick award.
2011 Yost's involvement with mental images wound down after the company was acquired by NVIDIA.

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