Configurable modularity
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Configurable modularity is a term coined by Raoul de Campo of IBM Research
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 and later expanded on by Nate Edwards
Nate Edwards
Nathen P. Edwards is a former IBM hardware architect, retired in 1997. He did his military service from 1942 to 1946, as a LTJG, Deck, USNR, Pacific, Chief Radio Technician, followed by Stanford University, where he gained an MS EE in 1949....

of the same organization, denoting the ability to reuse independent components by changing their interconnections, but not their internals. In Edwards' view this characterizes all successful reuse systems, and indeed all systems which can be described as "engineered".
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