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Although robots and robot fantasies have existed in some form for over two millennia, we are only beginning to see their predicted benefits come to fruition in our world of rapidly developing cheap technologies. more...

System complexity is a challenge both with regard to defining and agreeing on basic concepts of system dependability, and to actually achieving such dependability in practice from large computer-based systems. more...

Next generation networks are being realised by the convergence of wired and wireless converged networks. This has the potential to provide seamless services to the end user, providing freedom of movement between metropolitan/enterprise and indoor/outdoor coverage while maintaining continuity of applications experience. more...

The ideal of verified software has long been the goal of research in Computer Science. This paper argues that the time is ripe to embark on a Grand Challenge project to construct a program verifier, based on a sound and complete theory of programming, and evaluated by experimental application to a representative sample of useful computer software. more...

The Republic of Ireland has been a surprising success story in the global software market for reasons which are neither agreed nor obvious. However outsourcing towards lower cost countries is a threat to this success. more...