IBM to spend $billions developing self-repairing computers

IBM Corp. has announced what it believes is one of the company's most ambitious projects to date. Project eLiza is meant eventually to do away with system maintenance and the company is willing to spend $billions, one quarter of the its budget, to give system administrators control over systems hundreds of times more complex than current technologies. IBM sees a "looming crisis" in the business world as system complexity demands increasing resources - unless they can build systems that counter hackers automatically, respond to physical disasters and can repair common machine problems. The name eLiza is a reference to Ray Kurzweil's statements that IBM supercomputer, Deep Blue, has the intelligence of the average lizard. The goal of the project, in fact, is to create computer systems that behave like biological systems.

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