Software in the New Millennium: A Virtual Roundtable
Een leuk rondetafel gesprek door de IEEE. Wat quotes:
“the sentiments of baseball legend and sometime social commentator, Yogi Berra, express why we thought software engineers would be reluctant to try to predict the future. ‘Prediction is difficult, especially about the future.’ ”
“Academics worry about evolutionary or incremental changes to already poorly designed languages and systems, while industrialists race to keep up with revolutionary changes in everything. Academics are looking for better ideas, industrialists for better tools.”
“Nanotechnology, certainly, will be important, as will the increasing appearance of small, ubiquitous computing devices. RFID [radio frequency ID] technology is going to help multiply the number of places where small computers, wearable computers, and the like are going to make practical sense.”
“I predict that Apache’s Jakarta software development project will have a significant impact on how software is developed in years to come. The Jakarta project is a consortium of different development projects [...]. Jakarta provides for the development of commonly used tools, so that developers don’t have to consistently reinvent the wheel. ”
“The problem is not so much in implementation (programming), but in design. [...] Reducing design to implementation will continue to become easier. ”
“Ultimately I personally believe that grid will fail—it has a bad economic model and huge security issues on top of the technical challenges. ”
“the Semantic Web becoming the universal computer is mostly hype. Semantic Web technologies will become increasingly useful over the next 5 to 10 years, and will start to show up in unexpected places. These SemWeb technologies potentially could enhance processes such as aggregation and syndication; the integration of data sources; the merging and evolution of vocabularies and ontologies; trust and authentication; and search and discovery, among others.”
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