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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."
This early post for Ida!
Ask for Eric and mention code: "Broken Umbrella".
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Troll? That post made me laugh.. feeling guilty about something? :)
Someone is going to have to explain this one to me, because I honestly don't get it.
What's the big deal about the first posts?
Hey! It is always good to get some redundancy, I mean slashdot needs that badly!
Open Source development is powered by communities of motivated people. These people might be software architects, sysadmins, testers, visionaries, coordinators, managers, evangelists, critics, contributors, leaders, or users. They might be interested in operating systems or networking or graphics or Internet applications. But all the members of the Open Source development community share one passion and one goal:
Creating Legendary Software Together.
The Open Source development community is facing the single biggest opportunity, and single biggest threat, in its history. The marketshares of Linux, Apache and Sendmail have proved to the world's largest proprietary software companies that Open Source is no joke, and many of them are starting to reassign large parts of their staff to join strategic Open Source projects. Over the next five years, these entrants will swell today's community of 100,000 Open Source developers to at least four times that number. This massive influx of professionally trained engineering talent has the potential to catapult Open Source technologies to first place in every major software market by 2005. When this happens, the Open Source community will finally be able to claim "world domination."
But very few of these new participants from the proprietary software world will have ever worked on Open Source projects before. They'll be unfamiliar, maybe even uncomfortable, with the vigorous open culture and rigorous peer review that define the Open Source community. But they'll be joining so fast that the community's traditional ways of integrating new members, like Linux Users Groups [LUGs] and installfests, won't be able to educate them fast enough. With thousands of new people joining Open Source projects all over the world, we need a more scalable way to integrate them into the global community.
OSDN is designed to provide a scalable, Internet-based introduction to Open Source. It's dedicated to educating and providing resources for anyone supporting Open Source development, from developer to evangelist.
Autonomic is from the Greek word for "self-regulating."
A self-regulating AI robot will contemplate the projects of a mind as listed at http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/webcyc.html#projects in the Webcyc for humans and cyborgs.
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