Self-healing computers.

• Author: Swartz, Nikki
• Position: Up front: news, trends & analysis - IBM plans to develop computer systems that fix themselves when they break - Brief Article

It will be good for organizations' bottom lines, but it may be not so good for employees whose job it is to manage and repair computer systems.

IBM recently unveiled plans to develop computer systems that will fix themselves when they break. The company is creating a separate division, Autonomic Computing, to build computer systems that require less human intervention. As part of the software division, the unit also will work on standardizing efforts to operate with...