Initiative for Autonomic Computing Gains Strength 96
museumpeace writes "Tired of fixing your computer? What if your system broke down two billion
miles from the nearest spare part or human? NASA has just held a
colloquium where Ulster University computer science researcher Roy Sterritt was invited to present his ideas on Autonomic Computing. In the last few years,the leading system vendors have realized 'There is no less than a crisis today in three areas: cost, availability and user experience.' There has been a fair amount of academic research since customers like NASA see in it the potential to make remotely operated complex systems sustainable. It all makes for some very cool systems design work and there are lots of further research opportunities. Just don't forget what it may do to your job."
A Crisis! The sky is falling! (Score:5, Funny)
I better go buy a new computer.
Two words: (Score:2, Funny)
Automated nanobots
Now we need only worry about the whole thing going berserk, killing the crewmembers, and attempting to destroy the Earth.
JMD
Self-fixing computer? (Score:5, Funny)
Hmmm....bug or feature?
It's ubiquitously useable knowledge (Score:4, Funny)
30 years from now, this will be characterized as a 'mere spin off', and instead of bitching about Moonrocks, ignorant people will be saying "We spent billions to send robot probes to Pluto, and all we got was a bunch of contaminated Helium."
command line to estimate Autonomic flaws in files (Score:2, Funny)
Obligatory: (Score:3, Funny)
computer system of the future... (Score:1, Funny)
the man is there to feed the dog, the dog is there to keep the man away from the computer
they'll just get dumber (Score:3, Funny)
So far AOL is winning
lemme guess (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Change how you view yourself and your job... (Score:2, Funny)
I predict that within 100 years computers will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings in Europe will own them.
UPS (Score:3, Funny)
I think they'll do a one-day deliver on this for a small surcharge.