{"id":653,"date":"2005-01-25T22:44:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-26T02:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/wp\/2005\/01\/25\/not-so-grand-challenges\/"},"modified":"2005-01-25T22:44:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-26T02:44:00","slug":"not-so-grand-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2005\/01\/not-so-grand-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"(not so) Grand challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love stuff like this; a list of\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/05\/01\/25\/HNfuturechallenges_1.html?source=NLC-TB2005-01-25\">grand challenges<\/a>\nfor IT in the next 20 years.  Too bad some reward money wasn&#8217;t allocated! 8-)<\/p>\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s one up my alley;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\nScalable ubiquitous computing systems: Not only do we want our devices to interact predictably and reliably, we also want them to interact with every other conceivable device &#8212; but the complexity of many systems grows much faster than the number of nodes in the system. Computing engineers need scalable design principles: developing and applying them is the goal of this challenge\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Hmm, I dunno, that sounds pretty tough.  And in only <em>20<\/em> years?  Systems whose\nintegration complexity scales\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/2002\/09\/Blog\/2003\/01\/02#2003-01-oh-n\">O(N) or better<\/a>?\nThey&#8217;re talking nonsense. I bet ya that&#8217;s nigh impossible.  <em>sigh<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p>Ouch!  Who wrote <em>that<\/em> one?!  It must be a Web services proponent,\nbecause folks familiar with Internet scale development know that we&#8217;ve had\nthat problem licked for (at least) the past 40 years.  &#8220;Scalable design\nprinciples&#8221;?  I give you interface constraints.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I love stuff like this; a list of grand challenges for IT in the next 20 years. Too bad some reward money wasn&#8217;t allocated! 8-) Here&#8217;s one up my alley; Scalable ubiquitous computing systems: Not only do we want our devices to interact predictably and reliably, we also want them to interact with every other [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}