computer science

Magic Earth Inc.

Magic Earth Inc. is a computer science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Magic Earth Inc. rather than just read about it. In short: Magic Earth Inc. was a company founded in 1999 in Houston, Texas that was acquired by Halliburton in 2001. After the acquisition, the subsidiary was responsible for virtualization software for the gas and oil drilling industry.

Key takeaways

Magic Earth Inc. belongs to computer science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Magic Earth Inc. to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Magic Earth Inc. from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Magic Earth Inc. was a company founded in 1999 in Houston, Texas that was acquired by Halliburton in 2001. After the acquisition, the subsidiary was responsible for virtualization software for the gas and oil drilling industry.

Overview In 2001, Halliburton paid $100 million as a stock-for-stock transaction for the acquisition of Magic Earth as a subsidiary, by then headquartered in Houston, Texas. At the time Magic Earth specialized in oil and gas well exploration technology, volume visualization and interpretation solutions developing software called GeoProbe. With the acquisition, Halliburton aimed to combine Magic Earth's software with the data infrastructure of another subsidiary, Landmark Software Solutions. As of April 2001, Texaco was reported to have a 25% share in Magic Earth. In 2002 as a subsidiary of Halliburton, Magic Earth released SpecDecompInteractive, a tool for reservoir imaging and interpretation, based on spectral decomposition algorithms developed by BP. It aids the qualitative analysis of reservoir boundaries, heterogeneities, and thicknesses. Magic Earth filed a patent in geo-spatial analysis in 2000 (published in 2006) for a system and method to track a physical phenomena represented within a 3D space. The Kidra visualization center in Stavanger, Norway utilized Magic Earth software that enabled experts to provide work processes for clients in the oil industry. Petrodata, the manager of Petrobank, Norway's oil and gas geological database utilized Magic Earth's Geoprobe tools. The Magic Earth website started redirecting to the main Landmark Graphics Solution home page sometime in December 2004 until 2006. The domain was then taken over by unrelated navigation software, also named Magic Earth.

References

External links Halliburton Statement on Acquisition of Earth Magic (PDF)

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Magic Earth Inc.

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Magic Earth Inc. claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In computer science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Magic Earth Inc. before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Magic Earth Inc. ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Magic Earth Inc.

In research: Magic Earth Inc. appears in computer science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Magic Earth Inc. in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Magic Earth Inc. is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Data and information visualization, Data and information visualization software, Data companies, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Magic Earth Inc. outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Magic Earth Inc. in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Magic Earth Inc. means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Magic Earth Inc. out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Magic Earth Inc. in simple terms?

Why does Magic Earth Inc. matter?

Because it connects several computer science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Magic Earth Inc.?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Magic Earth Inc..