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SUMMARY:(Research) Programming networks of vehicles - Jonathan Davies
DTSTART:20081208T140000Z
DTEND:20081208T150000Z
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CONTACT:Andrew Rice
DESCRIPTION:As computers become smaller in size and advances in communicat
 ions technology are made\, we hypothesise that a new range of applications
  involving computing in road vehicles will emerge. These applications may 
 be enabled by the future arrival of general-purpose computing platforms in
  vehicles. Many of these applications will involve the collection\, proces
 sing and distribution of data sampled by sensors on large numbers of vehic
 les. This talk is primarily concerned with addressing how these applicatio
 ns can be designed and implemented by programmers.\n\nA problem with tradi
 tional approaches to programming this kind of application is that the numb
 er of vehicles and the nature of computational infrastructure available ar
 e not known until the application is executed.\n\nInstead\, we propose tha
 t the functionality of applications is designed and implemented in a more 
 abstract fashion\, and it is left to a compiler \nto decide where each com
 ponent of the application is best executed.\n
LOCATION:FW26\, William Gates Building
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