Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Allopoietic and Autopoietic and Conscientious and Ubiquitous and .... and ....

Conscientious Software: Part One of a Conversation with Sun Microsystems Laboratories' Ron Goldman


"In this world of interdependent applications and services, nobody's in charge anymore -- no one person can say it's time to throw the switch to do a global recompile."



Ron Goldman
Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems Laboratories



One word to describe all the recent research and studies in computing technology: The aim to build adaptive computing, with the advancement in both hardware, software and networking. Everyone want their computer to blend into the environment, to tolerent with their insane human behavior, to shut down itself and turn on again to save energy, to flush your toilet automatically when the smells reach a threshold, to scam money from the Internet when you digging your nose and etc etc.

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