Foreword

Michel Genard

VP and General Manager, Simulation and Lifecycle Solutions, Wind River

In the 19th century a French novelist named Jules Verne imagined and described a lot of surrealistic machines, such as the submarine and the space rocket, that were perceived to be impossible to build; and even if they could be built, why would you even want to go into space or deep water! Years later these places are humankind’s backyard. Like science fiction, simulation has set free mankind to solve complex problems by looking at these situations from a different level of abstraction, focusing on what matters for the problem to be solved. Likewise, Wind River Simics has enabled thousands of commercial and academic users to do things that were ...

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