Adding Value

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Adding Value

• Martyn Thomas
• Chair, AMSD Advisory Board

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Dependabilitythe industrial context (1)

• Industry needs greater dependability
• Improved quality of products
• Improved quality of development processes
• These two are the dependability gap referred to
  earlier by Brian Randell.
• Better system and network security
• viruses, trojans, denial of service, ...
• network penetration, loss of secret data, ...
• Improved customer satisfaction

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Dependabilitythe industrial context (2)

• The hardware platforms are changing
• smartcards
• pervasive computing / embedded systems
• IBM, Sun autonomic computing
• Major PC Dependability initiatives under way
• Trusted Computer Platform Alliance (TCPA)
• Promoters Intel, HP, Compaq, IBM, Microsoft
• Members 160 companies
• Microsofts Palladium trustworthy OS
• Intels LaGrande dependable hardware

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Dependabilitythe industrial context (3)

• Digital Rights Management
• owners of digital rights want to make it
  impossible to steal proprietary products
• software, music, films . A very powerful lobby!
• TCPA hardware is already shipping (eg IBM T30)
• Full protection, even on a TCPA platform, needs
  control over what software is allowed to run.
• TCPA/DRM is both an opportunity and a strategic
  threat.

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EU Industry/Academic Strengths in dependability

• Europe has great strengths in dependability
• Leadership in quality management e.g. ISO 9000-3
  
• Leadership in fault prevention
• e.g. system level formal methods and tools
• Leadership in fault detection e.g. static
  analysis, test strategies
• Leadership in fault tolerance
• e.g. fault-tolerant architectures
• Leadership in fault assessment
• e.g. Bayesian statistical approaches
• Leadership in security / safety
• e.g. invention of public key cryptography / IEC
  61508
• and more ...

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Conclusion Adding Value

• In the new industrial context, EU industry and
  academia have great strengths.
• We have the technical skills to build a
  dependable information society.
• If we act strategically, we can win a significant
  share of the market for dependable systems built
  on the emerging hardware platforms.