A part of the interesting design of Fortress is our emphasis on using traditional mathematical notation whenever possible. It's our hope you don't need a proprietary IDE to prepare Fortress code. Right now you can use any ASCII editor to write Java.

We have some unusual strategies for achieving parallelism. The ordinary 'for' loop is parallel, and we're trying out the feel of writing programs in this style. We're also working on a more elaborate 'type' system that does more error checking than has been done in the past. Roughly speaking, we can say that something is not just an array but an array of numbers.

It's not yet ready to give out to the public. It's an embarrassing research prototype that barely works for our purposes.

We can't make the whole system with which society deals with conflict perfect. Can't design it. But we can identify pathological dynamics that make it especially bad. And some of these we know how to fix. There are terrible conflicts that arise out of misunderstandings and people just think someone else is doing something terrible when they're not, and we know how to fix that.

Effective problem solving in design requires a balance of strategy and spontaneity, intelligence and creativity.

Forse una via di uscita sta nel sottrarsi alla lotta tra consumare ed essere, tornando al fare.