Autonomic Computing

pvcpie writes: "The New York Times has a story today about Autonomic Computing, which is described as "a biological metaphor suggesting a systemic approach to attaining a higher level of automation in computing;" and they published a paper (pdf) on the topic. Apparently there are already some universities signed up on Autonomic Computing projects, more info was available on the website and in the nyt article. It also appeared in CNET."

Comments

Re:single cell systems, etc.

[callmegracie]

does this maybe inspire anyone to realize that there is no way that something as complex as the human body (or earth's ecosystem) could've developed through randon mutations. if you want to refute that, read the chaos theory first. things tend towards chaos, not the order displayed in even the tiniest living cell.