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Date Posted:
Wednesday August 06, 2008 10:18:36 AM
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Dear Ubiquity Readers:
The article "Emergence of The Academic Computing Clouds" raises important issues regarding paradigm of computer & software technologies and establishing new paradigm on Web Sciences. In fact very recently the July issue of "Communications of the ACM, Volume 51, Number 7 (2008)" published a range good articles related to "Cloud Computing" under the theme of "Web Science." More specifically Brian Hayes's article "Cloud Computing" is published in the "Communications of the ACM Volume 51, Number 7 (2008), Pages 9-11." Hayes article argues "Whether it's called cloud computing or on-demand computing, software as a service, or the Internet as platform, the common element is a shift in the geography of computation."
Hayes also comments that "cloud computing raises questions about privacy, security, and reliability.." which was a "major subject of discussion at a workshop held last January at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University."
Besides Hayes's paper, James Hendler, Nigel Shadbolt, Wendy Hall, Tim Berners-Lee, and Daniel Weitzner wrote an article on "Web science: an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the web" which is published in the "Communications of the ACM Volume 51, Number 7 (2008), Pages 60-69", where author's main hypothesis is "..Web must be studied as an entity in its own right to ensure it keeps flourishing and prevent unanticipated social effects.."
My favorite quote from the above article: "Computing plays a crucial role in the Web science vision, and much of what we know about the Web today is based on our understanding of it in a computational way. However, as we've explored here, significant research must still be done to be able to engineer future successful Web applications. We must understand the Web as a dynamic and changing entity, exploring the emergent behaviors that arise from the "macro" interactions of people enabled by the Web's technology base. We must therefore understand the "social machines" that may be the critical difference between the success or failure of Web applications and learn to build them in a way that allows interlinking and sharing."
Kind regards,
Arun
Message edited by: tired on Wednesday August 06, 2008 02:18:10 PM
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