Recently, however, two new CDC-based profiles were finalized. These profiles, the Personal Basis Profile (PBP) and the Personal Profile (PP), replace the PersonalJava platform, which is no longer under active development. Like PersonalJava, they provide the classes necessary for building interactive applications. This article describes the two profiles, and compares them to each other and to the PersonalJava platform.
This is a nice overview of the distributed programming paradigm in which applications simply read and write from a shared “tuple-space”. Invisibly to the application programmer, a distributed middlerware layer takes care of the replication and consistancy of the data between the processors. The article demonstrates how much simpler this model is than the RPC paradigm that is used for most distributed programming.
date: '2003-02-09 15:33:17'
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title: MIT initiative on technology and self
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I am currently listening to a Cambridge Forum speech by Sherry Turkle on our local public radio station. She is the director of the MIT initiative on technology and self.
Interesting stuff. She is talking about the reality and implications of people forming emotional attachments to computation devices (“relational artifacts”) like robot pets and dolls. I wonder how much this extends to the ubiquitous computation world that we are exploring in our research?
