actor model

Paul Dufresne dufrp@oricom.ca
Sat, 17 Jul 1999 02:23:46 -0400


On Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 01:54:43AM +0200, Francois-Rene Rideau wrote:

Fare about join-calculus:
> I prefer to see it as a formalized version of Carl Hewitt's long known
> actor model, where every join definition term is an actor.
> 
Searching... 
That must be that teacher at MIT.
It's homepage have nothing that talk about this however.
http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/hewitt/hewitt.html

This page about actor-1 seems to reference this.
http://lcs.www.media.mit.edu/people/lieber/Lieberary/OOP/Act-1/   \
Concurrent-OOP-in-Act-1.html
This Henry Lieberman seems to have written some interesting papers,
some in cooperation with Carl Hewitt.

And I could almost believe that this is Carl's resume but I am not sure:
http://www.oop.com/resumes/bio-carl.htm