NDLI: On the path to building a community of programs

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Lyubimskii, E. Z.
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	The grid project is the next step on the path to the creation of a worldwide artificial mind. For example, the Internet made it possible for people not to care about the place where the information is stored and how it is delivered. The grid allows people not to care about where and which resources are used to execute their programs. The next step will make it possible not to care about what programs are used to perform the desired tasks. It will be sufficient to set a task and programs will find and organize themselves so as to perform it. Even this step will not be the last one. All these features define the process of creating the universal mind from outside, that is, from the viewpoint of users. It is also important to see the internal substance of this process. From the inside, this is the process of creating a global community of programs.In the first decades of software development, the key problem was creating increasingly complicated and clever programs. Beginning in the 1990s, the main problem changed: now, it is to ensure the coexistence and cooperative operation of programs. This is a quite objective process, and it is governed by certain laws of which we mention two. First, the structure of the community of programs and the means of their interaction are largely similar to the structure and means of interaction in human society. Second, the human society becomes increasingly dependent on the community of programs, while the community of programs gradually becomes less dependent on the participation of people in its activity. Some day, the community of programs will become all-sufficient. It is a very important and many-sided question how the relationship between the human society and the community of programs will develop, and we must start studying this problem now.As the first step, I propose to build a model of the future community of programs involving researchers of various specialities. The study of this model will enable us to correctly guide the construction of the community of programs.
Starting Page	2
Ending Page	5
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISSN	03617688
Journal	Programming and Computer Software
Volume Number	35
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	16083261
Language	English
Publisher	SP MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica
Publisher Date	2009-02-08
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) Software Engineering Operating Systems Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems Computer Science
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Software

Sl.	Authority	Responsibilities	Communication Details
1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
5	Website/Portal (Helpdesk)	Queries regarding NDLI and its services	support@ndl.gov.in
6	Contents and Copyright Issues	Queries related to content curation and copyright issues	content@ndl.gov.in
7	National Digital Library of India Club (NDLI Club)	Queries related to NDLI Club formation, support, user awareness program, seminar/symposium, collaboration, social media, promotion, and outreach	clubsupport@ndl.gov.in
8	Digital Preservation Centre (DPC)	Assistance with digitizing and archiving copyright-free printed books	dpc@ndl.gov.in
9	IDR Setup or Support	Queries related to establishment and support of Institutional Digital Repository (IDR) and IDR workshops	idr@ndl.gov.in

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