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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...

17 years 9 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...

17 years 9 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...

17 years 10 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...

17 years 10 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...

17 years 11 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 –...

17 years 11 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...

17 years 11 months ago

BARCO's MOSArt

Another great piece of news! I was really pleased to see the announcement on BARCO ‘s use of our VxWorks 653 operating system in their MOSArt system . I remember many years ago...

17 years 11 months ago

Linux fit for Defense

In an earlier blog , I commented on the potential use of Linux in Aerospace & Defense , but I didn’t provide any background information to support my assertion that people seem to...

17 years 11 months ago

Obsolescence and Standardisation

I was reading through one of my (many) news feeds the other day when I came across an excellent article in Flight which reminded me of issues around obsolescence. The contract as...