Distributed Places bring new support for distributed, message-passing parallelism to Racket. This paper gives an overview of the programming model and how we had to modify our existing, runtime-system to support distributed places. We show that the freedom to design the programming model helped us to make the implementation tractable. The paper presents an evaluation of the design, examples of ...

By allowing any social institution to structure activity in any place, wireless information services break down the traditional mapping between institutions and places. This phenomenon greatly complicates the analysis of context for purposes of designing context-aware computing systems. Context has a physical, architectural aspect, but most aspects of context will also be defined in institution...

The two books being reviewed are compilation of papers on the belief system and religion that practiced by diverse local communities in Indonesian archipelago. first book concerned with experience repression political persecution many after 1965 event, while second describe adaptation processes those to islamization which is assumed as completed. Academically, successful exposing transformation...