Marginal, Mobile, Multilayered: Painted Invitation Letters as Bazaar Objects in Early Modern India

Early Concurrent/Mobile Objects

This essay just sketches my early investigations on the concept of objects which models concurrent activities of mobile entities that interact with each other in space. 1 A Bit of History and Motivations In early 70’s, research motivations were conceived at the Actor group led by Carl Hewitt and supported by AI Lab., and Laboratory for Computer Science, MIT. They were eager to – find a universa...

Mobile Objects as Mobile Processes

Obliq is a lexically-scoped, distributed, object-based programming language. In Obliq, the migration of an object is proposed as creating a clone of the object at the target site, whereafter the original object is turned into an alias for the clone. Obliq has only an informal semantics, so there is no proof that this style of migration is safe, i.e., transparent to object clients. In previous w...

Objects as Mobile Processes

The object calculus of Abadi and Cardelli [AC96, AC94b, AC94a] is intended as model of central aspects of object-oriented programming languages. In this paper we encode the object calculus in the asynchronous π-calculus without matching and investigate the properties of our encoding.

R&D as a Bazaar Economy

Pre-Modern and Early Modern Persian Literature: Written while Travelling?

In literary histories written in both Iran and the West it has generally be assumed that early modern Persian literary works are (technically inferior) copies of Western literary works. This has been and is still a claim. Almost no academically and scientifically sound works has substantiated this claim. While there is no point in denying a European influence on early modern Persian literature,...