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The Viewpoints Research Institute fits the bill: http://www.vpri.org/ They want to replace the entire software industry, since it's all a huge hack (especially the 100m+ SLOC codebases that are way too common). Goal: a full GUI system (from kernel to applications) in 20k SLOC. Take a look at the progress reports they've made. They claim a 200 line TCP, 800 line graphics system (apparently comparable to Cairo), and lo…

> They claim a 200 line TCP, 800 line graphics system (apparently comparable to Cairo) That's impressive (and hard to believe). Are more informations about this available somewhere?

There's a blog post about it here: http://www.moserware.com/2008/04/towards-moores-law-software...

Re: Google Labs no more

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Xerox PARC, IBM Research, MS Research, Google Research (don't confuse Google Labs with research). There are plenty more.

Isn't PARC pretty much a consultancy now?

It's also independent of Xerox, though a wholly-own subsidiary.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARC_(company)

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