Excerpt from The Technical and Social History of Software Engineering
(To be published by Addison Wesley in the autumn of 2013)
Copyright © 2013 by Capers Jones. All rights reserved.
As many readers know Google has already been working on a prototype of a wearable computer called “Google glass.” The device looks like an ordinary pair of glasses but contains an embedded computer with lenses can display information.
Even after more than 60 years software engineering is not yet a certified profession with licenses, board specialties, and malpractice monitoring as occurs with medicine and law. While there have been some improvements in programming languages, requirements, design, and development methods there is still need for much more progress. Continue reading
Although the dot.com bubble was a serious crisis for software and technology companies, it was not the only bubble to burst during the decade. Starting at the end of 2007 and running through 2010 the country and much of the world encountered what has come to be known as “the great recession” which is a paraphrase on “the great depression” which started in 1929. Continue reading
Two more recent examples of collateral damages show that they are still occurring even today. The first was in 2009 when the city of Port St. Lucie, Florida and offered substantial incentives to the graphics art company Digital Domain to move a development lab to the area. A massive 115,000 square foot office and studio complex was constructed on the western side of Port St. Lucie and occupied by about 300 software and graphics personnel early in 2012. Continue reading
Press Release – March 21, 2013
WHAT is the ISO 31000 risk management standard ?
ISO 31000 is the only internationally-recognized ISO standard in risk management.
WHO has developed it ?
Up to 60 experts from different sectors (industry, health & safety, quality management, banking & finance, etc.), representing 30 countries, worked within an ISO international working group called the ISO TC 262 committee – see : http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_technical_committee?commid=629121 Continue reading