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Architectures of extraordinarily large, self-sustaining systems

Posted by Richard P. Gabriel on Aug 29, 2008 04:18 AM

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QCon San Francisco 2007
Summary
Picture a system so large it cannot be comprehended. Can such a system be "designed" in any conventional sense? Will machines help design it? Will it help design itself? How will it keep running? Will it be alive? The foundations of computing are about to change. In this talk, Richard P. Gabriel explores why and how.

Bio
Richard P. Gabriel has a PhD in CS from Stanford, and an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College. He's been a researcher at Stanford, President and CTO at Lucid, Distinguished Engineer at Sun and is now a Distinguished Engineer at IBM Research where he looks into architecture, design, and implementation of extraordinarily large, self-sustaining systems and techniques for building them.

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Fascinating by Faisal Waris Posted Aug 31, 2008 8:57 AM
Reference by Mikhail Franco Posted Sep 1, 2008 1:47 AM
Hmm... by John Leach Posted Sep 19, 2008 4:34 PM
Re: Hmm... by John Leach Posted Sep 19, 2008 4:36 PM
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    Fascinating

    Aug 31, 2008 8:57 AM by Faisal Waris

    I remember from my AI course last year the idea of "Cultural Algorithms" (Prof. Robert Reynolds of Wayne State) that seems to suggest that digital evolution can be more or less a continuous process - a part of the system itself.

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    Reference

    Sep 1, 2008 1:47 AM by Mikhail Franco

    dreamsongs.com/Files/DesignBeyondHumanAbilities...






    Mik

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    Hmm...

    Sep 19, 2008 4:34 PM by John Leach

    Couldn't we say that the internet internet would be a ULS?

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    Re: Hmm...

    Sep 19, 2008 4:36 PM by John Leach

    just one internet... :)

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