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Computer, Heal Thyself IBM's eLiza
Computer, Heal Thyself Information Week has a brilliant in-depth article discussing IBM's most recent work on eLiza: Computer, Heal Thyself. It discusses the need for computers to take over control from IT managers, as systems are becoming more complex, unstable and tedious to tune. The first step involves self-upgradable software, a bit like XP. The next step will be more rule based -- like an expert system for preventing and fixing rules. Many developers are competing for this market, including IBM. This will take a while longer to get established, but it'll take another 10/15 years to get adapting systems (better OS and hardware would be required). Interesting concepts; it'll take time, but definitely should be followed closely... IT support people may be out of the job soon! | Alex J. Champandard 935 posts. Monday 15 April, 17:21 Reply
Physician heal thyself To some extent many computer systems already monitor their own activity, but there aren't really any operating systems or similar programs out at the moment which *actively* seek to prevent bugs and failures. This means that most computer systems at the moment are quite fragile, and the deletion or corruption of a single file will generally cause a catastrophic failure. A self-healing computer system would be advantageous in many ways, reducing the need for technical support (I've worked in software for years and often found the quality of technical support - particularly from larger companies - to be dreadful). On the other hand a self-healing OS might be much more difficult to program, since you would in part be battling against the system's own immune response. A comparable biological situation would be doing a heart transplant on a patient, then having to give them suppressive drugs to prevent the organ from being rejected. - Bob | motters 136 posts. Tuesday 16 April, 02:59 Reply