Swarm computing???
I am now lined up to do research! :D
The expected topic? Distributed computing on cell phones. (I mean seriously... all these cell phones with ARM processors... who actually needs the processing power of a 400MHz 32-bit processor on a clamshell phone?) Also... it's cloud computing... that floats around.
I think this is a pretty fantastic concept. Unfortunately, we don't have a killer app for it, so if anybody has any ideas, I'm highly curious.
As a side note, the only real drawback to this that I can think of off the top of my head is that it would involve tracking where people are so that you can migrate work as people leave or turn off their cell phones or whatnot, and I know there are people who might think it's a nifty idea but do not, under any circumstances, to be tracked like that if they can get away with it... (That said, the really paranoid people would pitch their phones altogether because you can track someone reasonably well just by watching cell tower handoffs, so this might be less of an issue with people than it could be...)
Oh... also the fact that this is all kinds of ripe for security vulnerabilities, but that's a small matter of programming and is our own damn fault if we screw it up.
The expected topic? Distributed computing on cell phones. (I mean seriously... all these cell phones with ARM processors... who actually needs the processing power of a 400MHz 32-bit processor on a clamshell phone?) Also... it's cloud computing... that floats around.
I think this is a pretty fantastic concept. Unfortunately, we don't have a killer app for it, so if anybody has any ideas, I'm highly curious.
As a side note, the only real drawback to this that I can think of off the top of my head is that it would involve tracking where people are so that you can migrate work as people leave or turn off their cell phones or whatnot, and I know there are people who might think it's a nifty idea but do not, under any circumstances, to be tracked like that if they can get away with it... (That said, the really paranoid people would pitch their phones altogether because you can track someone reasonably well just by watching cell tower handoffs, so this might be less of an issue with people than it could be...)
Oh... also the fact that this is all kinds of ripe for security vulnerabilities, but that's a small matter of programming and is our own damn fault if we screw it up.