C++ was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs as a language to allow more complex programs. It enhanced and combined features from other existing languages of its time. According to Stroustrup, he wanted “to make programming more enjoyable for the serious programmer.”

In 2016, more programmers choose SQL – probably not for the joy it brings, but because it’s now the standard in managing database communications. SQL manipulates and tracks information, helping us make sense of our ever increasing volumes of data.

With the release of Game Boy, which sold over 100 million units in its 20 year span, we had portable video games to play on-the-go. It came with the always popular Tetris, and so began the era of spending countless hours dazed by a handheld device.

Virtual Reality takes “dazed” to another dimension and challenges us to distinguish what and where is “real”. The Oculus Rift headset, developed and manufactured by Oculus VR, was released in March 2016. How will portable VR work for people on the go?

The first version of the WorldWideWeb was introduced in 1990 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. His vision: to link and connect any website and the people who create them. In a spectacular gesture of success, Sir Berners-Lee tweeted “this is for everyone” to some 900 million people during the 2012 Olympics.

Browsing went mobile in 2009. Today’s high-speed mobile networks bring connectivity and information to more people worldwide. Just 25 years since the start of the “www”, there’s no need to plug in at home or office. We can share, discover, work and learn wherever we are.

Visually-fluid special effects made this movie a hit as well as the most expensive of its time. Terminator 2’s state-of-the-art visual effects and more realistic cyborgs brought Artificial Intelligence to life and left people feeling uneasy about AI and its potential threats to human civilization.

No longer just a theme for sci-fi movies, the potential dangers of AI are now a real and hot topic among prominent scientists and technology leaders. Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk among others have urged caution in advancing the realm of Artificial Intelligence.

Hailed as the ultimate in ease and portability in 1990, the first Apple PowerBook was big, heavy and clunky by today’s expectations.

Price: $7300
Weight: 16 lbs
CPU: 16Mhz
Memory: 1 MB RAM, 40 MB Hard Drive
Display: 10" B&W LCD 640 X 400 pixels

Consumers continue to demand smaller and more integrated mobile devices to facilitate our modern habits of connectivity and constantly access to information. The world is always at our fingertips.

Price: $800
Weight: 1.57 lbs
CPU: Dual-core 2.26 GHz
Memory: 128 GB
Display: 12.9" LED Touchscreen 2048 x 2732 px

The first CAST products were focused on helping developers and architects develop better code and understand the technical inner structure of complex, multi-technology software systems. An early key feature was Impact Analysis.

The current CAST AIP is a full analytics suite that includes 49 languages out-of-the-box. The most recent versions of AIP have also instituted important benchmarking tools that help IT managers measure ongoing success and risk factors.