After "refocusing" Oslo (in short, the Microsoft strategy for model-driven development consisting in the M modeling language + the Quadrant modeling environment + a model repository) we were left wondering if Microsoft still believed in model-driven development .

The Open Health Tools - Model-Driven Health Tools project (MDHT) aims to provide modeling tooling extensions to the Eclipse Modeling Project for healthcare applications, and in particular, to produce implementations for the HL7 standard .Another interesting project to follow!

Zuzel Vera Pacheco, a Master Student at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Greg Wilson has been working on the Back-annotation of data models at run-time . For a short description of her project see also this presentation on slideshare.

to many hard problems, from using nuclear power to combating diseases. He also said that it´s surprising that there's no disease-modeling software and, more importantly, he aims to make sure that gap is filled, supporting development of the tools needed to do such modeling.

Gates plans to offer up the modeling software package for free for others to use. He conceded that the models never get things right exactly, but he said, "You are a hundred times smarter doing it that way than just going out there (without such models)."

An executable model is a model complete enough to be executable. I´m fully aware that this definition is kind of useless but the executability of a model depends more on the execution tool we use than on the model itself (e.g. some tools may require a more complete and precise model specification while others may be able to "fill the gaps" and execute more incomplete models).

Nice article on SD Times magazine where software experts comment on the fact that UML is still active but has lost part of the buzz that it previously had.