A Grand Challenge: Theories for Global
Ubiquitous Computing
Robin Milner, Cambridge University, UK
This talk describes an initiative to provide theories that can underlie
the development of the Global Ubiquitous Computer, the network of
ubiquitous computing devices that will pervade the civilised world in
the course of the next few decades. We define the goals of the
initiative and the criteria for judging whether they are achieved; we
then propose a strategy for the exercise. It must combine a bottom-up
development of theories in directions that are currently pursued with
success, together with a top-down approach in the form of collaborative
projects relating these theories to engineered systems that exist or
are imminent.
