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Millisecond Headquarters, Seattle, Washington
Millisecond Headquarters, Seattle, Washington.

In the spring of 1995, I sat down at my PC, fired up Visual C++ 4.0, and began writing the first lines of code that would eventually become Inquisit. At the time, I was a graduate student at the University of Washington. Only a few miles east in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft had just released a beta version of what it then called the "Game SDK" and ulitmately released as "DirectX". The Game SDK promised to deliver high-performance graphics and input processing to Windows 95, and though it was designed for video games, I immediately recognized its value to the field of cognitive psychology - it would finally enable millisecond precision stimulus presentation and reaction time measurement on Windows. My advisor, Tony Greenwald, gave me the green light to create new experimentation tools for the lab, and within a year, we were collecting our first data with Inquisit. Upon completing my Ph.D. in 1997, I founded Millisecond Software and went on to develop Inquisit into a commercial product.

To my knowledge, Inquisit was the first experimentation engine to leverage DirectX on Windows. It was the first to incorporate speech recognition. More recently, Inquisit was first to bring experiments with millisecond precision timing to the web. I love to innovate, and given my training in science and 9 years of experience developing software at Microsoft, Millisecond provides the perfect opportunity for me to do so.  My hope is that Inquisit enables my customers to do the most innovative research in the field.

Sean Draine, Ph.D.,
Founder/CEO, Millisecond Software

Millisecond Software is located in Seattle, Washington. Click here for contact information.

Millisecond at SPSP 2010 conference
January 04, 2010
Millisecond will be at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) conference in Las Vegas at the end of... more
New task library additions
January 04, 2010
The Millisecond Task Library continues to grow with the recent addition of several new scripts that implement a... more
Millisecond at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society
March 12, 2009
In eight short days, we'll once again be heading to San Francisco for the Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting <A... more
Inquisit 3.0.3.2 has been released
March 12, 2009
After a good long while in beta, Inquisit 3.0.3.2 has finally been released. There are lots of new features and bug... more