The CLOS Metaobject Protocol (CLOS MOP) is a specification of how major building blocks of CLOS are implemented in terms of CLOS itself. This enables programmers to subclass meta-level classes and define meta-level state and behavior in an incremental fashion. The benefits of such a meta-level architecture for object systems in general and CLOS in particular are well documented. However, some p...

The development of distributed execution engines has greatly simplified parallel programming, by shielding developers from the gory details of programming in a distributed system, and allowing them to focus on writing sequential code [8, 11, 18]. The “sacred cow” in these systems is transparent fault tolerance, which is achieved by dividing the computation into atomic tasks that execute determi...

The interplay between arts and HCI has become increasingly commonplace in the past years. In this paper, we examine Situationist art practice as an inspiration for HCI design. We argue that methods from Situationist art practice have often been picked up without regard for their underlying sensibility. We describe an experiment in incorporating Situationist sensibility in design and use it to e...

This article deals with a modern disease of academic science that consists of an enormous increase in the number of scientific publications without a corresponding advance of knowledge. Findings are sliced as thin as salami and submitted to different journals to produce more papers. If we consider academic papers as a kind of scientific 'currency' that is backed by gold bullion in the central b...