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Fifteen years ago, it would have been hard to predict just how large a role the software industry would play in the life of a developing country. True, the sale of PC’s had started to grow and access to the Internet was slowly spreading but these were trends in the developed world, far remote from the cities, towns and villages of developing countries. It was in this world of promise and uncertainty that a few pioneers set out on their mission to create for the developing world an Institute that would provide them with knowledge, training and experience. It was not an attempt to transfer trade information on the use of this or that software package or even to train people in programming skills, both of which would certainly have found ready acceptance. Instead, it was to share the conviction that a mathematical understanding and definition of what a program was to achieve would be the way of the future, bringing abstractness and precision to a field that was otherwise distinguished more by the scale and detail of how a program performed its tasks.
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Joseph, M. (2007). Engineering the Development of Embedded Systems. In: Jones, C.B., Liu, Z., Woodcock, J. (eds) Formal Methods and Hybrid Real-Time Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4700. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75221-9_17
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