Lambda the Ultimate

(Via the JML list.) The docs are skimpy, but they claim to extend "environments with type systems, which provide an automated means to enforce many basic policies, and use the resulting framework to cover a wide range of security policies for global computers."

Through their global, uniform provision of services, and their distributed nature, global computers have the potential to profoundly enhance our daily life. However, they will not realize their full potential, unless the necessary levels of trust and security can be guaranteed.

We aim to develop the technology for establishing trust and security for the next generation of global computers, using the Proof Carrying Code (PCC) paradigm.