M3 – Roots of Distributed Systems: Computation in Space and Time

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Computer science and computation, a basic ontology for distributed systems, and parallel versus concurrent versus distributed systems.

course of the deck
Course_icon.svg Distributed Systems (Module 1) (2nd cycle, 2023/2024) — Andrea Omicini
used in the lectures
same deck in other editions
reference publication
Publication_icon.svg Towards robust distributed systems (abstract) (paper in proceedings, 2000) — Eric A. Brewer
Publication_icon.svg Preliminary Discussion of the Logical Design of an Electronic Computing Instrument (book chapter, 1982) — Arthur W. Burks, Herman H. Goldstine, John von Neumann
Publication_icon.svg Concurrent histories: A basis for observing distributed systems (article in journal, 1987) — Pierpaolo Degano, Ugo Montanari
Publication_icon.svg The Computing Field: Structure (book chapter, 2008) — Peter J. Denning
Publication_icon.svg Ubiquity Symposium `What is Computation?': Opening Statement (article in journal, 2010) — Peter J. Denning
Publication_icon.svg Hundreds of impossibility results for distributed computing (article in journal, 2003) — Faith Fich, Eric Ruppert
Publication_icon.svg Ubiquity Symposium `What is Computation?': Computation is Process (article in journal, 2010) — Dennis J. Frailey
Publication_icon.svg Interactive Computation: The New Paradigm (edited volume, 2006) — Dina Q. Goldin, Scott A. Smolka, Peter Wegner
Publication_icon.svg Distributed Computing. Principles, Algorithms, and Systems (book, 2011) — Ajay D. Kshemkalyani, Mukesh Singhal
Publication_icon.svg Distributed Computing: Models and Methods (book chapter, 1990) — Leslie Lamport, Nancy Lynch
Publication_icon.svg Computer Science (article in journal, 1967) — Allen Newell, Alan J Perlis, Herbert A Simon
Publication_icon.svg An Introduction to Parallel and Vector Scientific Computation (book, 2006) — Ronald W. Shonkwiler, Lew Lefton
Publication_icon.svg Distributed Systems. Principles and Paradigms (book, 2017) — Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Maarten van Steen
Publication_icon.svg On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem (article in journal, 1937) — Alan Mathison Turing