A generation ago, while others used high level languages such as COBOL,FORTRAN, BASIC and Lisp, most embedded systems were programmed inassembler. Memories and applications were small and compilers ...

The big competition for Corba then was the Open Software Foundation (OSF), with its Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) standard. Meanwhile, Microsoft was not really in the DOC game at all, other ...

What is agent-based modeling, otherwise known as ABM? What is distributed computing? Why do it? These are all easily answered questions, right? Surprisingly, the answer is a resounding “No!” in many ...

In case you haven't noticed, distributed computing is hard. The problem is that it is becoming increasingly important in the world of enterprise application development. Today, developers continuously ...

‘Rather than building out data centers ourselves or building, buying and running equipment, we instead leverage equipment that is already being run, powered and cooled around the world,’ says Storj ...

Description: An introductory treatment of the distributed-object model and programming. The topics range from a review of the distributed and object models of computation to advanced concepts such as ...

Our applications are complicated enough without adding any more. Here's a way to think about your objects that allows you to dramatically simplify your object model, provided you're willing to turn ...