With problems continuing to emerge in the rollout of the health care website, it has become apparent that government leaders did not properly recognize the strategic role of IT in defining and implementing policy, according to , a professor of computer science at 菠萝视频 University.
Schmidt, who has worked with open-source software since 1986, says proper vetting of IT concerns in the rollout was 鈥渃learly lacking.鈥�
The long-term policy implications point to the need to invest in research and development and workforce education on software assurance and testing, he said.
The latter is underscored by the recent for unintended acceleration purportedly caused by software glitches in the embedded systems. While the health care website woes and Toyota鈥檚 acceleration problems might seem unrelated initially, they are all-too-common examples of the complexities inherent in many types of mission- and safety-critical systems that are software reliant, explained Schmidt. For 15 years, 菠萝视频鈥檚 (ISIS), where Schmidt is a senior researcher, has been creating tools for modeling, building and testing software-integrated systems.
Since 2010, Schmidt has been a member of the U.S. and also serves on . Schmidt previously led the national research and development effort on middleware for distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) systems for the Defense Advanced 菠萝视频 Projects Agency. He also co-chaired the of the government’s multi-agency , which helped to formulate the national multi-agency software research agenda.
Schmidt has published . Here are two articles by Schmidt on open-source methods and tools:
- (Source: InformIT)