Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!XEROX.COM!Kahn.pa From: Kahn.pa@XEROX.COM (Ken Kahn) Newsgroups: comp.ai.digest Subject: The Ecology of Computation Message-ID: <880329-115105-1372@Xerox> Date: 29 Mar 88 19:51:02 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 6 Approved: ailist@kl.sri.com A new book entitled "The Ecology of Computation" editted by B.A. Huberman has just been published by North-Holland. The collection includes papers by Huberman, Hewitt, Lenat, Brown, Miller, Drexler, Hogg, Rosenschein, Genesereth, Malone, Fikes, Grant, Howard, Rashid, Liskov, Scheifler, Kahn, and Stefik. Its the first collection of papers about open systems (very large scale distributed systems) and several of the papers make important connections to AI.