Researchers are developing computer systems that systems become their own security experts, adapting to threats as they unfold and staying one step ahead of the action.
For years, artificial-intelligence researchers have gained some of their most useful insights from experts in brain function. And today the biological sciences are making similar contributions to all sorts of technologies useful to business, from software that "grows," "heals" and "reproduces" to tiny carbon tubes that will allow computer transistors to shrink to atomic dimensions even as they grow more powerful.
Programs crash, people make mistakes, networks grow and change. That?s life, and computer scientists are finally building systems that can deal with it.
David Fisher has created a new computer language that will allow the creation of computer systems that can adapt around attack or sabotage, maintaining survivability by sacrificing components if necessary.
IBM has announced it is building a massive supercomputer that will have the ability to repair itself, and keep itself running without human intervention. The supercomputer, code named 'Blue Sky', is being assembled for The National Center for Atmospheric Research and will be capable of predicting atmospheric climate changes, heating oil prices, and global warming.
IBM has unveiled an ambitious initiative to develop technologies that share the basic biological abilities of living organisms -- the ability to mantain and heal itself.