Very-Long Instruction Word architectures: an alternative way to organize processors. Instead of the trend toward hardware making complex decisions for scheduling machine-level instructions in programs, VLIW systems do scheduling at compile time.
Hyperspaces allow software enginners to split code - and other software artifacts such as requirements and design documents - along multiple concern dimensions, and recombine them automatically.
IBM's toolkit is based on tools developed for video and other applications in 1995-1996. Their toolkit reflects the Unix philosophy of shells, processes and generic tools, and demonstrate a shell-based implementation of the protocol and its usefulness...