Blanca Mancilla
I have been working for a number of years in Cartesian Programming (AKA
Intensional Programming), in which any entity is assumed to be a
multidimensional array of arbitrary dimensionality and extend, evaluated when
needed based on a context of evaluation: a set of (dimension, value)
pairs. Viewing programming through this angle, opens up a new paradigm
facilitating (among others) the combination of synchronous systems (time is
another dimension), geospatial infrastructure (bring location dimensions as an
integral part of the context), and any other parameters as needed, in the same
framework, using the context of evaluation.
A spin-off project is to create a distributed infrastructure for
communication, coordination and control of systems, be they software and/or
hardware, most important nowadays with the mobility of devices, data,
services, applications and users. The key is to understand the exact
role of each player, as the infrastructure needs to act as a broadcasting
server as well as a synchronous coordinator.
Our research group is arriving at a very exciting
moment as the language to enable us to program in such an environment and start
experimenting, is being developed and successfully implemented. This language
is TransLucid.
The power of the index
Teaching
Comments:
mancilla at cse dot unsw dot edu dot au.
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