Computing Needs Time

Courtesy Lambda the Ultimate - Programming Languages Weblog  Sun, 05/31/2009 - 18:03

Edward A. Lee, Computing Needs Time , Communications of the ACM, Volume 52, Issue 5 (May 2009).

The foundations of computing, rooted in Turing, Church, and von Neumann, are about the transformation of data, not about physical dynamics.

This paper argues that we need to rethink the core abstractions if we really want to integrate computing with physical processes.

In particular, I focus on a key aspect of physical processes that is almost entirely absent in computing, the...

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