National Instruments was founded by James Truchard and Jeff Kodosky. The two started their science careers as researchers at the University of Texas at Austin in the early 1970s. Together, they invented what would become one of National Instruments’ most important software products: LabVIEW. LabVIEW, or Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Engineering Workbench, is “a programming language that revolutionized the way engineers and scientists measure, test, and control applications.” After coming...