Hypertasking: From Information Web to Computing Utility

John McCarthy proposed the vision of utility computing in 1961. Barbara Liskov proposed a related vision of abstraction-powered Internet Computer in 2009. This position paper outlines a distributed computing model towards realizing the McCarthy-Liskov vision. This “hypertasking” model aims at extend...

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Published inJournal of computer science and technology Vol. 40; no. 3; pp. 607 - 620
Main Authors Xu, Zhi-Wei, Yu, Zi-Shu, Li, Feng-Zhi, Zhang, Yao
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Singapore Springer Nature Singapore 01.05.2025
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Artificial Intelligence
Cloud computing
Computer architecture
Computer Science
Computers
Data Structures and Information Theory
Distributed processing
Hypermedia
Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet)
Internet
Perspective
Public utilities
Software Engineering
Theory of Computation
Utility computing
World Wide Web
stored-computer architecture
hypertask
cloud computing
computing utility
hypermedia
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Summary:John McCarthy proposed the vision of utility computing in 1961. Barbara Liskov proposed a related vision of abstraction-powered Internet Computer in 2009. This position paper outlines a distributed computing model towards realizing the McCarthy-Liskov vision. This “hypertasking” model aims at extending the “hypermedia” model of the World Wide Web into a model of World Wide Computing Utility, turning an information web into a computing web. The hypertasking model contains three abstractions, including global resource space, stored-computer architecture, and monadic hypermedia. A prototype architecture and experimental evidence are presented to support this perspective.
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ISSN:1000-9000
1860-4749
DOI:10.1007/s11390-025-5126-4