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dc.contributor.authorLewis, Ted G.
dc.contributor.authorPower, Dave
dc.contributor.authorMeyer, Bertrand
dc.contributor.authorGrimes, Jack
dc.contributor.authorPotel, Mike
dc.contributor.authorVetter, Ronald J.
dc.contributor.authorLaplante, Phillip A.
dc.contributor.authorPree, Wolfgang
dc.contributor.authorPomberger, Gustav
dc.contributor.authorHill, Mark D.
dc.date.accessioned2014-05-16T17:30:26Z
dc.date.available2014-05-16T17:30:26Z
dc.date.issued1995-08
dc.identifier.citationPublished in Computer (Volume: 28 , Issue: 8 )
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10945/41251
dc.descriptionThe article of record as published may be located at http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/2.402054en_US
dc.description.abstractTo 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.en_US
dc.rightsThis publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.en_US
dc.titleWhere is software headed? A virtual roundtableen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.contributor.departmentComputer Science (CS)


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