Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 25th Sep 2009 23:12 UTC, submitted by Still Lynn
Most of us are probably aware of Singularity, a research operating system out of Microsoft Research which explored a number of new ideas, which is available as open source software. Singularity isn't the only research OS out of Microsoft; they recently released the first snapshot of a new operating system, called Barrelfish. It introduces the concept of the multikernel, which treats a multicore system as a network of independent cores, using ideas from distributed systems.
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2007-09-23
I beg to differ. Algorithmic science is very real and even if the science is more abstract than, for example, biology of physics it is a well established science with theories and observations in actual implementations.
You may not agree with me on the definition of science but I would still argue that computer science should be consider a science and hence writing software is a very fundamental part in exploring that science.
Edited 2009-09-27 16:05 UTC