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Chris Hobbs is the only person I know who holds a math degree with a specialization in mathematical philosophy. In fact, before I met him, ...

Separation can be painful. But often, the failure to separate can result in even more pain over the long haul. No, I’m not talking love, ...

Testing: no longer about establishing the correctness of a system A few years ago, I penned a whitepaper that contained these words: ...

Can you achieve one without sacrificing the other? Maybe it's just me, but a lot of people seem to use reliability and availabi...

Software components can be impolite, if not downright delinquent. For instance, a component might: rob other components of CPU time rob ...

Too much of a good thing? It's a rhetorical question, of course. But hear me out. As you can imagine, many safe systems must be des...

I wish I could remember his exact words. But it has been a long time — 20 years — and my memory has probably added words that he never wrote...

The question, to some degree, is rhetorical. I work for an OS company, that company has developed a 62304-compliant OS for medical device...

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If you're developing software for an embedded system equipped with a multicore processor, have we got a webinar for you. On Wednesday...

HTML5 may represent the future of automotive infotainment, but it won't exist in isolation. HTML5 apps will, for the foreseeable future,...

If developing next-gen robotics is your thing, Hiro's your man. A couple of years ago, I introduced you to Hiro , a QNX-based robot de...

Image courtesy LDRA Until a few weeks ago, I had never heard of LDRA. My bad. LDRA has been in business for more than 35 years, develo...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but until Eclipse came along, the software industry didn't have a standard platform for developing applic...

A glimpse of the Corvette's virtual mechanic, in the original skin. A few months ago, the QNX concept development team pimped out a s...

Recently, our local town councillor called a neighborhood meeting to discuss the construction of a new apartment building at the top of my s...

A couple of days ago, I mentioned that QNX always likes to make a big splash at the annual embedded world conference . Well, the big splash ...

Hey, check out this video of Sebastien Marineau, VP of engineering at QNX, as he explains how the multi-core capabilities of the QNX Neutrin...

My colleague Chris Hobbs writes books, designs software, sings Schubert, teaches pilots, and, if all that isn't enough, pens papers on f...

By definition, Heisenbugs are sensitive to being observed: They appear sporadically during normal operation, but disappear when the develop...