Everything, it seems, will soon be computerized in some fashion. Everyday appliances like your refrigerator and oven already contain microprocessors and I recently saw a pair of shoes that contained a small computer to allow kids to see how fast they run and how high they jump. Soon, these embedded systems will become a deeper part of our lives than ever before. Not only that, they will begin talking to each other. All this computerization begs the question, "Are we, as computer professionals, capable of writing software and building hardware that is good enough to become part of people's lives in ever more intimate ways? [Continue Reading]

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