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SUMMARY:From RPC to Web Apps: Trends in Client-Server Systems - George Cou
 louris (Computer Laboratory\, University of Cambridge)
DTSTART:20100525T150000Z
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CONTACT:Andrew Rice
DESCRIPTION:For this meeting we will join the SRG seminar.\n\nClient-serve
 r system goals and technology have come a long way from their original pur
 pose as an infrastructure for the sharing of networked resources. Driven b
 y the demand for widely-available and rich user interaction\, the prevalen
 t client-server infrastructure has evolved to become the web application e
 nvironment. We trace the evolution of software design and technology devel
 opments that have led us to this point. RPC \, CORBA\, REST and AJAX are s
 alient points that will be visited along the way. Our quest is for an answ
 er to the question: is the web application environment a satisfactory basi
 s for the development of interactive applications?\n\nGeorge Coulouris is 
 Emeritus Professor of Computer Systems at Queen Mary\, University of Londo
 n and a Senior Research Associate at the Cambridge University Computer Lab
 oratory.
LOCATION:FW26\, Computer Laboratory
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