Rice University
Departments of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering and
the Computer Information Technology Institute (CITI)
present
Tobin J. Lehman
IBM
T Spaces: The Next Wave
Abstract
Millions of small heterogeneous computers are poised to spread into the infrastructure of our society. Though mostly inconspicuous today, disguised as nothing more than PIM
(personal information management) computers, these tiny processors will eventually pervade most aspects of civilized life. The one thing holding them back from being everyone's portal to the new electronic society and the access point to an infinite store of information is the lack of a high-quality logical link to the world's network backbone.
Enter T Spaces, a network middleware package for the new age of ubiquitous computing. T Spaces is a tuplespace-based network communication buffer with database capabilities
that enables communication between applications and devices in a network of heterogeneous computers and operating systems. With T Spaces, it is possible to connect all computers
together, which leads the way towards an infinitely large cluster of cooperating machines. In this talk I will describe the T Spaces package and explore the directions of this project.
For more information see http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/TSpaces
Friday, November 6, 1998 at 3 p.m. in DH 1064
Reception to follow in Martel Hall
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