Learning from the Web: The Web has taught us many lessons about distributed computing, but some of the most important ones have yet to fully take hold.

Abstract

In the past decade we have seen a revolution in computing that transcends anything seen to date in terms of scope and reach, but also in terms of how we think about what makes up “good” and “bad” computing.

Index Terms

• Applied computing

  • Document management and text processing

    • Document preparation

• Computing methodologies

  • Modeling and simulation

    • Simulation theory

      • Systems theory

• General and reference

• Mathematics of computing

  • Information theory