Talk (followed by pub!) on ROC/NetKernel (should be of interest to Clojure users)

[Chris Cormack]

Hi Guys,

Sorry for this being a spammy post from a new member, but I hope the
topic will be of interest to you guys :-).

Peter Rodgers, CEO/founder of 1060 Research who make NetKernel (which
is a mature Resource Orienteered Computing framework - basically REST
on steroids and taken to the next level!), he'll be giving a
presentation on ROC and NetKernel in Cambridge. We'll also be going to
the pub afterwards (which pub is still tbc) at about 20:30 if you
can't make the presentation! Clojure is one of the many language
runtimes available in NetKernel, so it would be interesting to get
your thoughts on NetKernel!

Where: The Trinity Centre, Cambridge Science Park (http://
www.cambridgesciencepark.co.uk/facilities-services/trinity-center/)
When: 18th April 2012, 18:30
What: Peter Rodgers, founder and CEO of UK-based 1060 Research (http://
www.1060research.com/). The abstract for his talk is provided below:

"Resource Oriented Computing (ROC) is a new model for achieving more
complex and more scalable software solutions.  Imagine taking the
essence of Unix and combining it with the logical addressing and
resolution of the Web. Then imagine a scale invariant model that works
at the finest granularity of a software system all the way out and
between cloud servers.  Then imagine that you are liberated from the
rigid constraints of one programming language and its APIs to a
polyglot world where languages are chosen to fit problems.  Next
imagine your composite logical solution scales linearly with physical
platform and the system automatically discovers and caches in every
dimension simultaneously...

First begun as a research project in HP-Labs in Bristol, ROC is an
established and proven technology and is embodied in NetKernel the ROC
platform.   NetKernel, now in version 5, powers mission critical
telecoms systems, some of the worlds largest online retail sites,
critical web infrastructure such as the persistent URL service and is
used in sectors ranging from insurance, medical, defence, government
and health-care.

In this talk you will get an introduction to ROC and NetKernel and
will leave with a new and different perspective on the untapped
potential of software."


Please forward this on to anybody or any groups that you think would
be interested.

I've also posted this on the NetKernelROC (a NetKernel community)
forums: http://www.netkernelroc.org/nk4um/topic/68/.

Thanks for your time!

Chris Cormack

[Christopher Cormack]

Hi,

We'll be going to the Golden Hind at about 20:30, if you're unable to make the talk.

Best wishes,

Chris