NASA To Auction Automated Code Generation Patents 134
coondoggie writes "NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center said it is set to auction an exclusive license to five patents it holds for automated software development on November 11, 2010. NASA said the technology was originally developed to handle coding of control code for spacecraft swarms, but it is applicable to any commercial application where rule-based systems development is used."
Prior Art hits me again (Score:4, Funny)
Curse you, Prior Art!
Re:Prior Art hits me again (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Doh! Missed a chance at a patent. (Score:1, Funny)
I'm sure we were not the first, nor as sophisticated, but in 1994 we wrote a program to write programs.
Yo dawg!