Postscript
Most of the chapters in this book conclude with a summary of the lessons learned from our experiences with different aspects of developing software for the virtual prototyping paradigm. In keeping with that approach, we have selected some of the most important lessons for final emphasis.
Lesson 1: Software is key, and it is different
The intellectual capital—the knowledge—needed to produce a virtual product design or to conduct simulation-based scientific research with computers resides within the software, the software development team, and the user community, not in computers or networks or the other commodity components of the computing ecosystem. The software that forms the foundation for the virtual prototyping paradigm cannot ...
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