Hooray, Actors!

October 31st, 2008 § 4 comments

A coworker just dropped an ancient arti­fact off for me to read:

IMG_0291.JPG

  • http://www.kamaelia.org/Home Michael Sparks

    Down­load­able (legally) from here:
    http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6952

    Your actual paper copy wins hands down though! :-)

    I’ve been tidy­ing up a down­load of Hewitt’s 1973 paper (which appears to be OCRd and a bit dodgy in places) — very inter­est­ing read­ing. Turns out the Actor model comes from arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence and was actu­ally an attempt to unify lots of dif­fer­ent mod­els of computation.

    Oh, and lisp based. Should I be surprised ? :-)

  • jnoller

    I think every­thing is Lisp based. Every­thing >:|

  • http://www.kamaelia.org/Home Michael Sparks

    Down­load­able (legally) from here:
    http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6952

    Your actual paper copy wins hands down though! :-)

    I’ve been tidy­ing up a down­load of Hewitt’s 1973 paper (which appears to be OCRd and a bit dodgy in places) — very inter­est­ing read­ing. Turns out the Actor model comes from arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence and was actu­ally an attempt to unify lots of dif­fer­ent mod­els of computation.

    Oh, and lisp based. Should I be surprised ? :-)

  • http://jessenoller.com jnoller

    I think every­thing is Lisp based. Every­thing >:|

What's this?

You are currently reading Hooray, Actors! at jessenoller.com.

meta

  • Author: jesse
  • Comments: 4 Comments
  • Categories: Programming