1.   PaperPort software creates a graphic image of the scanned item and lets the user edit, annotate and sort the result.

2.   Another winner was Commerce One, a Walnut Creek, Calif., company whose software creates a vendor network that lets buyers bid for goods online.

3.   Software can create a firewall that keeps others from accessing data in your computer.

4.   The Animatek software creates eerie behavior in its avatars.

5.   The designers said the software could create three-dimensional sound instantly for interactive games.

6.   The software then creates a composite signature based on those three versions.

7.   The software creates a score for each lesion, indicating the probability of cancer, Elbaum said.

8.   The software profligately creates icons galore and eight separate Windows program groups.

9.   When the box owners make an online purchase, special software will create and transmit a code for each order.