GM CTO sees more code on future cars
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OCTOBER 20, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - The relationship between General Motors Corp. and the software industry will experience some major changes over the next few years as software becomes a more important
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One of the world's premier automotive headline makers hatches a familiar scheme.
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Document management company hopes license change will mean more outside programmer involvement.
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General Motors Corp. said on Thursday it expects to significantly improve operating results, including earnings and cash flow, over the next two-to-three years.
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A swift response to problems should speed the automaker's recovery.
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General Motors GM.N is considering   increasing its car exports from Europe, including to its key   U.S. market, to help boost productivity at its European sites,   a senior GM executive said on Thursday.
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By Mike Lee, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Dec. 19--What happened: The Fort Worth Code Compliance Department showed off its new in-vehicle computer system, CodeOps, on Monday.
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DETROIT -- First Cadillac, then Chevrolet, now Saturn. After spending billions to revamp two of its most storied brands, General Motors Corp. has turned its attention to one of its newer makes -- an estimated $3 billion effort to inject some excitement in the Saturn lineup and create a portfolio that appeals to a broader audience.
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NEW ORLEANS -- General Motors Corp. plans to put two safety features -- OnStar in-vehicle communications service and electronic stability control -- in all of its vehicles by the end of 2010, the company said yesterday. GM believes it would be the first automaker to make both features standard, a spokesman said.
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LOS ANGELES -- GM's chief executive was talking green technology in environmentally conscious California yesterday, saying the number one US automaker is working on a hybrid vehicle that plugs into a standard electrical outlet.
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Wired News grills Bob Lutz and other top General Motors executives including about when we can expect the highly-anticipated flex-fuel Volt, and what it will look like.
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Automakers weren&#39;t as generous with consumer incentives in October as they were in September, but shoppers can expect a new round of deals as manufacturers, particularly General Motors Corp.
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Is another hybrid in Ford Motor Co.&#39;s future? The automaker is hinting at its possible powertrain plans with the Mercury Meta One, a concept vehicle debuting at January&#39;s North
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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates touted on Monday Microsoft's plans to build a declarative modeling language that could greatly reduce the need to code.Speaking at Microsoft's 2008 Office System Developers Conference in San Jose, Calif., Gates acknowledged work was afoot on such an endeavor, although he described the effort as a five- to eight-year project.With the declarative language project, the goal is to make programming declarative rather than procedural. "Most code that's written today is procedural code. And there's been this holy grail of development forever, which is that you shouldn't have to write so much [procedural] code," Gates said. "We're investing very heavily to say that customization of applications, the dream, the quest, we call it, should take a tenth as much code as it takes today.""You should be able to do things on a declarative basis," Gates continued. But this has not caught on partially because of weak data models -- first codicil and then relational. Stronger data models since have emerged, such as rich schemas around XML as well as modeling work being done by Microsoft and others, Gates said. "We're bringing the data models up to be much, much richer, and we think in that environment, a lot of business logic can be done in a declarative form. Now, we haven't totally proven this yet. We're doing a lot of internal developments ourselves that way," including some Microsoft business applications, he said."We're not here yet saying that [a declarative language has] happened and you should write a ton less procedural code, but that's the direction the industry is going," Gates said. "And, despite the fact that it's taken longer than people expected, we really believe in it. It's something that will change software development but more like in a five- to eight-year timeframe than overnight," he said.Top Microsoft Technical Fellows, including Brad Lovering, are working on the declarative modeling language project, Gates said.A published report has referred to the project as the "D" programming language being built as part of the company's Oslo modeling project. But Gates did not specifically mention the name "D" or Oslo.
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New cars will include labels with crash test ratings and more realistic fuel economy estimates.  In Autopia.
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Le Castellet, FRANCE September 19, 2004; General Motors today announced the company will introduce more than 50 new engine and transmission variants around the world by the end of the decade.
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General Motors Corp. , the world's largest automaker, will extend warranties to 100,000 miles on 2007 cars and trucks as part of a plan to tout quality and win back buyers lost to Toyota Motor Corp. and other rivals.