Title :
Ideas Ahead of Their Time
Author_Institution :
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Abstract :
When software ideas are ahead of their time, two problems can arise. Either better hardware is needed for the software to be feasible, a new technology isn´t adoptable because there´s no current need for it. EIC Fred Douglis looks at examples of both problems in this installment.
Keywords :
Clocks; Educational institutions; Global Positioning System; Hardware; Humans; Isolation technology; Moore´s Law; Personal digital assistants; Portable computers; Sprites (computer); new technologies; process migration; software development; virtual machines; virtualization;
Journal_Title :
Internet Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MIC.2008.103
