TUNES is an open project to develop a free, reflective computing system, based on the idea of metaprogramming. It was started in 1994, but is still in the design stage. Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... Metaprogramming is the writing of programs that write or manipulate other programs (or themselves) as their data or that do part of the work that is otherwise done at runtime during compile time. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...
The name is a recursive acronym for "TUNES is a Useful, Nevertheless Expedient System". A recursive acronym is an acronym (or occasionally, a backronym) which refers to itself in the expression for which it stands, similar to a recursive abbreviation. ...
The Tuning project addresses several of the Bologna action lines and notably the adoption of a system of easily readable and comparable degrees, the adoption of a system based on two cycles and the establishment of a system of credits.
Tuning phase II The second phase of the Tuning project (2003-2004) is based on the outcomes of the first phase (2000-2002).
A more general ambition of the Tuning project is to be a platform for the exchange of experience and knowledge between countries, higher education institutions and staff with regard to the implementation of the Bologna process at European level.
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