Year: 2022

MONKEYS, TYPEWRITERS AND SHAKESPEARE. "How many random variants of these 66 characters will compile? How many will link and execute at all, or execute without fatal errors? Assuming that our program has already been written, what is the chance of evolving it into another, more complex program that will compile, link, execute and produce meaningful output?" https://lnkd.in/dZqxxrU View in LinkedIn

RECOMBINANT COMPUTING. "Interoperability among a group of devices, applications, and services is typically predicated on those entities having some degree of prior knowledge of each another.” https://lnkd.in/dJu-E5i View in LinkedIn

"MOBILE GENETIC ELEMENTS: the agents of open source evolution." MGEs move DNA that codes proteins between genomes. (Brilliant review). https://lnkd.in/dc9JRew View in LinkedIn

JUMPING GENES. "Transposable elements (TEs), also known as "jumping genes," are DNA sequences that move from one location on the genome to another. For example, TEs make up approximately 50% of the human genome and up to 90% of the maize genome." https://lnkd.in/GEpmJN View in LinkedIn

JUMPING CODE. "Mobile code can also download and execute in the client workstation via email. Mobile code may download via an email attachment (e.g., macro in a Word file) or via an HTML email body (e.g., JavaScript). For example, the ILOVEYOU, TRUELOVE, and AnnaK email viruses/worms all were implemented as mobile code." https://lnkd.in/dZ5JPXK View in LinkedIn

"MOBILE CODE is the ability to move executable code across the network, to the place where it is needed, and then execute that code securely and reliably." https://lnkd.in/dqK2a6W View in LinkedIn

ARCHITECTURE. "A mobile code-based architecture would enable Word to not only detect that a new printer is available, but determine what code is needed to use it, and then deliver that needed code on demand." https://lnkd.in/dqK2a6W View in LinkedIn

LIMITED EXPERIENCE. "This paper presents a case for “recombinant computing”—a set of common interaction patterns that leverage mobile code to allow rich interactions among computational entities with only limited a priori knowledge of one another." https://lnkd.in/dJu-E5i View in LinkedIn

BOLT-ON ENTITIES. "Speakeasy’s approach to accomplishing the recombinant computing vision is to cast all devices and services on the network as “components” that implement a small, fixed set of programmatic interfaces which allow them to be “snapped together” at runtime by users." https://lnkd.in/drEH-9B View in LinkedIn

CUT AND PASTE. "DNA transposons never use RNA intermediaries—they always move on their own, inserting or excising themselves from the genome by means of a so-called "cut and paste" mechanism." https://lnkd.in/GEpmJN View in LinkedIn