Genetically sociable

The sociable gene

808 Genes are no longer what they used to be. Once the powerful determinants of our biological and evolutionary fate, their central importance is now gradually being chipped away. At first glance, this may just sound like an interesting puzzle for scientists: How can the gene be placed correctly in the larger context of biology? But it also creates an important challenge when it comes to commun...

Sociable Interfaces

Interface formalisms are able to model both the input requirements and the output behavior of system components; they support both bottom-up component-based design, and top-down design refinement. In this paper, we propose “sociable” interface formalisms, endowed with a rich compositional semantics that facilitates their use in design and modeling. Specifically, we introduce interface models th...

Sociable Information Spaces

Information providing – the high-bandwidth, highly produced world of news and entertainment publication – is segregated from information exchange – the free-flowing verbal world of MUDs, chatrooms, newsgroups and email. Existing technologies enforce this segregation: the newspaper is inert; the TV set only receives. Yet these technological constraints are dissolving. The computers that today ho...

Programming with Sociable Resources

We present a model for shared-memory parallel programming that makes shared objects (“resources”) the drivers of heap-manipulating parallel computations. The model aims to syntactically capture patterns of spatial locality in heap updates and to express the maximum amount of logical parallelism in computations. To achieve this, we take a “resources’-eye” view of parallel operations on the heap....

Towards Sociable Robots