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Time's running out...

How would you like to send your name to another planet? Click here to send your name to Mars on Phoenix Lander. (sign-ups open until 12 Feb according to http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/)...

18 years 2 months ago

World's Most Advanced Warship

Last week saw the official launch (BBC News) of HMS Dauntless, the second of the state-of-the-art Type 45 air defence destroyer. This follows almost exactly a year after the launch...

18 years 2 months ago

Tools standardisation

Changing tracks for a moment I couldn’t help but pick up on one of my Google Alerts this morning regarding what is essentially the technology behind DSO standardisation – ECLIPSE...

18 years 3 months ago

A robot in every home

I’ve been trying to keep track of industry news, and at the moment it seems as to me as if everyone is either blogging about the Apple iPhone (Engadget blog) or Windows Vista...

18 years 3 months ago

Comet McNaught

Here’s a treat for folks in the southern hemisphere – a comet, perhaps the brightest in 40 years. Comet McNaught is barely visible from the N. Hemisphere, just at sunset. Continue...

18 years 3 months ago

Can Automotive learn from Avionics Safety?

In my previous post on software safety standards, in response to some questions raised by Alex Wilson , I commented on what I believe are signs of convergence between avionics...

18 years 3 months ago

Safety Standards Convergence?

In a recent post on software certification , Alex Wilson asked why there are so many software safety certification standards? The current situation is of course due to historical...

18 years 4 months ago

Software Certification

I wonder why it is always the case that the period of time just before year end is suddenly very hectic! There must be a universal law about that, something like Murphy’s Law...

18 years 4 months ago

Mitigating Risk

The phone rings. A customer has an application destined for a high-risk environment, and somewhere in test they’ve found a new unanticipated condition. A " Tiger Team " is formed –...

18 years 4 months ago

VxWorks 6.4 POSIX PSE52 Conformance Certification

In the post ‘ Great News for POSIX ‘, Alex Wilson commented on the announcement that VxWorks has becomes the first operating system to achieve certified conformance to POSIX PSE52...

18 years 5 months ago