The exploration curve in today’s booming information & technology field knows no boundaries with constant innovations driving our world to a point where ‘The Matrix’ would seem like nothing more than a hyped piece of reality.

At the forefront of such development comes another interesting proposition laid out by a group of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Headed by Professor Martin Rinard, the team in collaboration with a start up company called ‘Determina’ revealed their radical software ‘ClearView’ that aims at fixing certain software bugs without any human intervention.

ClearView is an automated software that monitors the binary (the universal execution instructions sent to computer hardware) instead of accessing the source code (set of instructions defining a specific program’s behavior). This positions ClearView at a point where it can monitor multiple software without the need to feed in information of either.

ClearView observes a program’s normal behavior patterns and assigns a set of rules (perimeters) within which the program functions. If and when there is a violation of the perimeter, ClearView devises a set of patches to fix the breach in the regular binary pattern. It then implements each patch and checks for violations resulting from it. If there aren’t any then the program has been technically resolved without any human intervention or access to the source code, but by tweaking the very instructions that were malicious. Bravo! An immune system for software.