The coming third wave of innovation is signal processing

Here's an article at embedded.com that's related to recent discussions
about DARPA's Grand Challenge.

http://www.embedded.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=171000445

A couple of excerpts from the article:

A new wave of DSP-based innovation is just around the corner,
according to Gene Frantz, a principal Fellow at Texas Instruments
Inc.

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In describing the areas where the next wave of DSP innovations
would most likely occur, Frantz began with transportation,
highlighting the concept of an autonomous automobile requiring no
driver, which he said could happen in the next 20 years. As
evidence of developing technology in this area, Frantz referenced
the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)'s second
Grand Challenge autonomous-vehicle competition, which is
scheduled to hold a qualification event next week in Fontana,
Calif.

Dismissing automobile manufacturers who routinely tell him that
the autonomous car will never happen, Frantz said, "Someday we
will look back and say, 'How in the world could you ever have had
a car that wasn't self-driving?"

There is more interesting stuff at the provided URL. Please read the
article and let me know what you think of the near-term feasibility of
some of Frantz's ideas.

Louis Savain

Why Software Is Bad and What We Can Do to Fix It:
http://www.rebelscience.org/Cosas/Reliability.htm
.