Lambda the Ultimate

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Abstract:
Actors are becoming ever more important because of our increasing dependence on the following:

* coherent many-core (soon to be every-word-tagged) architectures, for which Actor concurrency is ideally suited.
* the Internet of Things, for which Actors are helpful in standardization.

In carrying out the above work, it is helpful to distinguish between the following:

* The Actor Model (which can be used to directly model all physically possible computation) is being increasingly used in industrial products, e.g., eBay, Microsoft, Twitter, etc.
* ActorScript (which is a particular very efficient and powerful programming system for implementing Actors) can be used to guide practical implementations in currently available programming environments, e.g., Erlang, Elixir, Java, C++, C#, JavaScript, Scala, etc.

Specific examples are discussed of how to use ActorScript and the Actor Model for engineering large-scale information systems in datacenters and for the Internet of Things. In particular, Actors can help avoid many pitfalls and problems that are commonly encountered.

Technical and engineering aspects of Actors for CyberThings even bear on possible resolutions of the current FBI/NSA proposal for mandatory backdoors in the Internet of Things.

Please see the following background reading:

* Articles on the following: the Actor Model, ActorScript, and Inconsistency Robustness
* How installing backdoors in the Internet of Things assists cyberterrorists