CS547 Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (Seminar on People, Computers, and Design)
Fridays 12:30-1:50 · Gates B01 · Open to the public- 20 years of speakers
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Doug Crockford||Randy Farmer
Electric Communities||Electric Communities The socialization of cyberspace: From habitat to the full service network January 12, 1996
Electric Communities aims to develop an enabling software technology called the Cyberspace Operating System (or COS) which supports online markets and social communities. This technology will reside in a network environment which, by design, can scale to serve everyone in the world adequately. COS is designed explicitly to provide a secure and robust platform for fully decentralized operation. Decentralization, a guiding principle of the Internet, is the only means by which the commercial and social environment can scale large enough to become a self-sustaining mass medium. However, decentralization can increase the vulnerability of systems to hacking; therefore, COS provides a rigorous security model that protects computers and their communications far more reliably than Firewalls and other security band-aids. This level of security will become increasingly important, because a significant portion of the world's monetary system is going to move into the Net. Electric Communities will establish COS as an open standard by publishing the specifications of the protocols it implements, by publishing a reference implementation, and by making the COS standard available to all parties without royalties. COS has been developed on the basis of previous experience with Habitat, a graphical online multi-person environment, and AMiX (American Information Exchange), which provided the first electronic information marketplace for buying and selling business information and consulting services under open market conditions. These and other examples of virtual communities will be described and discussed. For more details, see http://www.communities.com |
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