Now That's Distributed Computing zdnet.com
Esteemed ilk sister Mary Jo digs up some choice words from deep inside www.microsoft.com. Quoted for entertainment purposes only.
The Microsoft Research site, for one, is chock-a-block with some out-there stuff, like telepresence-the pet project of Gordon Bell(yes, THAT Gordon Bell of Unix fame, who works for Microsoft in its Bay Area Research Center).
Ok, Mary Jo doesn't know everything. Gordon Bell was famous for the PDP-11, he worked for DEC, which didn't much want to have anything to do with Unix till late in the game. They had Cutler and crew doing the OS thing.
There's Microsoft's MCoM effort, for example, dedicated to providing "location-transparent and location-aware tether-less access to distributed information via heterogeneous computing and wireless communications devices." The researchers describe the resulting software architecture and algorithms as enabling systems to "adapt to the radical differences in the communications substrate," and thus hiding from handheld device users how, when and where they are logged onto networks.
And I thought DNA/DNS and the Web lifestyle was bad. Of course, it's research, so a certain amount of obfuscatory prose is required.
Cheers, Dan. |
