Reading the book "Trillions: Thiving in the Emerging Information Ecology", there is some pretty harsh criticism of the current state of play in computing. It seems to resonate with my understanding of FoNC and its publications, particularly the lack of rigour/math in current design/development and the opportunity lost. Looking at the Culler keynote slides from http://sensys.acm.org/2012/ , it appears there is some environmental and financial pressure to embrace the trillion nodes, sooner rather than later. It is understood it is not a goal of FoNC to deliver executable artifacts and there is likely enough already published with Maru + its application to graphics in Nile, to conceive how an elementary "headless node" with connectivity + storage might be implemented, but it would be informative to look at what better minds had already tried ... in say the "lower" 2k LOC ? that comprise the FoNC 20k concept. Any chance ?
david
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