[Pl-seminar] 5th December : Christoper Lemmer Webber - Goblins and Spritely: from the actor model to distributed virtual worlds

[Aviral Goel]

*Date:* Wednesday, December 5th, 2018
*Location:* WVH 366
*Time:* 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM


*Goblins and Spritely: from the actor model to distributed virtual worlds*

*Abstract*
Goblins is an actor model implementation for Racket, inspired by
object-capability secure distributed progamming languages such as E with a
few new twists of its own thrown in. Goblins is the foundation for a
project to build secure, player/user-programmable virtual worlds named
Spritely. Spritely builds on the success of the ideas from the ActivityPub
protocol, which has succeeded at connecting together various distributed
social network projects, extending them to pull in rich interactive and
game aspects. See what is built so far, what's coming next, and how the
actor model and object capabilities tie together all these ideas to enable
a robust and secure distributed system.

*Bio*
Christopher Lemmer Webber is a user freedom advocate who works on
distributed social network technology. They are most well known for their
work on the W3C ActivityPub federated protocol, which connects over 1.5
million users across the distributed social web. Chris enjoys programming
in lisp/scheme flavored languages, especially Racket.
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