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DARPA Seeks Software Systems That Can Last 100 Years

posted by on Friday April 10 2015, @01:21AM   Printer-friendly
from the stay-on-my-lawn-for-a-long-long-time dept.

AnonTechie writes in with a story from phys.org about the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) push to create software that can continue to be useful along time scales of up to a century.

From the phys.org article:

As modern software systems continue inexorably to increase in complexity and capability, users have become accustomed to periodic cycles of updating and upgrading to avoid obsolescence—if at some cost in terms of frustration. In the case of the U.S. military, having access to well-functioning software systems and underlying content is critical to national security, but updates are no less problematic than among civilian users and often demand considerable time and expense. That is why today DARPA announced it will launch an ambitious four-year research project to investigate the fundamental computational and algorithmic requirements necessary for software systems and data to remain robust and functional in excess of 100 years.

The Building Resource Adaptive Software Systems, or BRASS, program seeks to realize foundational advances in the design and implementation of long-lived software systems that can dynamically adapt to changes in the resources they depend upon and environments in which they operate. Such advances will necessitate the development of new linguistic abstractions, formal methods, and resource-aware program analyses to discover and specify program transformations, as well as systems designed to monitor changes in the surrounding digital ecosystem. The program is expected to lead to significant improvements in software resilience, reliability and maintainability.

DARPA's press release and call for research proposals.

 
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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by c0lo on Friday April 10 2015, @01:22AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday April 10 2015, @01:22AM (#168577) Journal
    All immortal software is written in COBOL.
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  • (Score: 5, Touché) by sigma on Friday April 10 2015, @01:38AM

    by sigma (1225) on Friday April 10 2015, @01:38AM (#168581)

    Undead and immortal are not the same thing.

    • (Score: 1) by Wierd0n3 on Friday April 10 2015, @05:06AM

      by Wierd0n3 (1033) on Friday April 10 2015, @05:06AM (#168631)

      vampires? (not the sparkly ones lol)

      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Friday April 10 2015, @03:58PM

        by Jeremiah Cornelius (2785) on Friday April 10 2015, @03:58PM (#168767) Journal

        Is this in the service of maintaining the USA as a "glorious, thousand-year reich"?

        There are so many kinds of wrong in technology, politics and general mental-health. It's hard to know from which angle this deserves the greatest criticism.

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  • (Score: 2) by mtrycz on Friday April 10 2015, @10:14AM

    by mtrycz (60) on Friday April 10 2015, @10:14AM (#168687)

    No, JavaScript is the best candidate for the job.

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