The Apiary network architecture for knowledgeable systems

  • Authors:
  • Carl Hewitt

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • LFP '80 Proceedings of the 1980 ACM conference on LISP and functional programming
  • Year:
  • 1980

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Abstract

Creating more knowledgeable computer systems will require vastly increased computational resources. We are working on the development of a computer architecture (called the Apiary) to meet this need. In this paper we present an overview of the Apiary introducing important concepts and techniques such as Interest groups. Jeff Schiller has constructed a preliminary implementation of the network software for the Apiary on the CADR Distributed System at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Phyllis Koton has constructed a preliminary version of Portal which is a communications chip designed to facilitate the construction of Multiprocessor Network Architectures like the Apiary. However a great deal of work remains to be done in order to make the Apiary into a practical usable system.