A few months back, I picked up an issue of Scientific American. Nothing to unusual there, but I was quite surprised by one of the articles I found inside. In “Dependable Software by Design”, Daniel Jackson put the high-integrity software industry in the public eye.
Okay, the news was broken months ago… and I’m still in awe. The Sony Playstation 3 will be released with a more powerful CPU than is currently available in any computer in a PC format. Currently, the only computer I know of that will eventually make use of this chip is IBM’s Blade line of servers. No home computing resource even comes close.
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Some technologies just amaze me in their inability to catch on with Joe Average. Maybe it was ahead of its time, or maybe its just “too out there”, but DigitalSpace Traveler is the embodiment of one of those technologies.
Part I of this article described the various types of software architect. In this article we’ll describe the work they do, or should do, in a bit more detail.
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