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Unmanned Systems No Longer Require Human, or Canine, Participation

Forty-plus years ago, when automatic pilots were first used to perform automatic landings of large aircraft, there was a joke that was circulated among pilots everywhere. Future...

13 years 4 months ago

The new front in cyber warfare: embedded systems

At the recent Take Down Conference, a scheduled talk on security vulnerabilities in SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) systems was cancelled due to direct requests...

13 years 6 months ago

Wind River Named "Transformational"

Voke, Inc. has just released its annual “Market Mover Array Report on Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)," and we’re very pleased to see that Wind River’s Device Lifecycle...

13 years 6 months ago

In embedded systems, a lifetime is a long time

The recent news about the demise of the Mars Rover Spirit (Mike Deliman blogged about this last week) and comments about how it succeeded its mission many times over, got me...

13 years 6 months ago

IDEF 2011

Recently, I attended the IDEF 2011 defence trade show in Instanbul as part of the Wind River team exhibiting on the Tektronik (Turkish distributor) stand. Our partner, Curtiss...

13 years 6 months ago

And Then There Was One

NASA concludes attempts to contact Mars Rover 'Spirit' Last night the news of Spirit's mission coming to a close hit my mailbox. For me, her journey started about eleven years ago...

13 years 6 months ago

The Best Software On Any Planet

In 1995, after finishing up on a particularly challenging project, my boss came to me with a new project. He asked, “Have you ever heard of Jet Propulsion Laboratory? Would you...

13 years 7 months ago

Wind River Turns 30: Looking Back and Moving Forward

2011 marks Wind River’s 30th anniversary . The big 3-0…it’s a major landmark moment in anyone’s book. This year, we’ll be taking time to honor this milestone with a retrospective...

13 years 7 months ago

Fun with VxWorks MILS 2.1

It's been awhile since my previous blog, as I have been rather preoccupied with responding to a number of RFPs. However, I’ve managed to find some time to work on some demos for...

13 years 8 months ago

Rendezvous with a Rock

MESSENGER spacecraft is approaching it's rendezvous with Mercury. After flying for over 2400 days, in a little over 24 hours (from writing this) MESSENGER will maneuver into orbit...

13 years 9 months ago