carlehewitt
- Karma
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- Created
- 7 years ago
About
Professor Carl Hewitt is the creator (together with his students and other colleagues) of the Actor Model of computation, which influenced the development of the Scheme programming language and the π calculus, and inspired several other systems and programming languages. The Actor Model is in widespread industrial use including eBay, Microsoft, and Twitter. For his doctoral thesis, he designed Planner, the first programming language based on pattern-invoked procedural plans.Professor Hewitt’s recent research centers on the area of Inconsistency Robustness, i.e., system performance in the face of continual, pervasive inconsistencies (a shift from the previously dominant paradigms of inconsistency denial and inconsistency elimination, i.e., to sweep inconsistencies under the rug). ActorScript and the Actor Model on which it is based can play an important role in the implementation of more inconsistency-robust information systems. Hewitt is an advocate in the emerging campaign against mandatory installation of Internet backdoors in the Internet of Things.
Recent Submissions
- 1. ▲ Highly-Secure Backdoors (papers.ssrn.com)
- 2. ▲ Scalable Intelligent Systems by 2025 (papers.ssrn.com)
- 3. ▲ Internet of Traitorous Things (papers.ssrn.com)
- 4. ▲ For Cybersecurity, Computer Science Must Rely on Strongly-Typed Actors (hal.archives-ouvertes.fr)
- 5. ▲ Citadels: Faster response and better information integration than datacenters (papers.ssrn.com)
- 6. ▲ Video of Panel Discussion with Tony Hoare, Joe Armstrong, and Carl Hewitt (youtube.com)
- 7. ▲ Interview of Professor Carl Hewitt (youtube.com)
- 8. ▲ Scalable Intelligent Systems: Build and Deploy by 2025 (youtube.com)