Where is software headed? A virtual roundtable
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Lewis, Ted G.
Power, Dave
Meyer, Bertrand
Grimes, Jack
Potel, Mike
Vetter, Ronald J.
Laplante, Phillip A.
Pree, Wolfgang
Pomberger, Gustav
Hill, Mark D.
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1995-08
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To find out where software is headed, experts in academia and
industry share their vision of software's future. It is a snapshot in
time of where we have been and possibly where we are headed. The
subjects discussed are: the desktop; software technology; objects;
software agents; software engineering; parallel software; and the
curriculum. The results suggest a strong polarization within the
software community: a chasm exists between academia and industry. It
appears that these two groups share radically different views on where
software is headed. The impression is the heavy emphasis on programming
languages, operating systems and algorithms by the academic group, in
contrast to the clear emphasis on standards and market-leading trends by
the industrial group. 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.
To an industrial person, things are moving fast-they are revolutionary.
To an academic, things are moving too slowly, and in the wrong
direction-they are only evolutionary changes which are slave to an
installed base.
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The article of record as published may be located at http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/2.402054
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Computer Science (CS)
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Published in Computer (Volume: 28 , Issue: 8 )
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