The European Commission (EC) has published draft guidelines on the definition of an AI system to explain the practical application of the legal concept, as anchored in the EU AI Act. The EC aims to ...

The definition of “system” is itself vague. You can call any object comprising two or more parts interacting with each other a system. You cannot even begin to devise a tool to help with system design ...

Understand why testing must evolve beyond deterministic checks to assess fairness, accountability, resilience and ...

A system that allows third parties to make products that plug into or interoperate with it. For example, the PC is an open system. Although the fundamental standards are controlled by Microsoft, Intel ...

(1) Software that is free of charge. See freeware. (2) Software that is free of restrictions and which may be free of charge. Free software licenses grant users the freedom to use it for any purpose, ...

Every good hardware or software design starts with a structured approach throughout the design cycle, but as chip architectures and applications begin focusing on specific domains and include some ...

With all the hoopla about Software-as-a-Service apps and mobile computing, it’s easy to forget that infrastructure software—everything from operating systems to middleware to databases—remains the ...