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 Ambient-Oriented Programming is a novel programming paradigm for programming spontaneous interactions between mobile and/or embedded devices.
-{{:at:atlogo.jpg?80  |:at:atlogo.jpg}} This page is also the home of AmbientTalk, our experimental programming language to develop applications for software running on mobile ad hoc networks. To get started, you can read the [[at:tutorial:tutorial|tutorial]] or [[http://code.google.com/p/ambienttalk/#The_Essence_of_AmbientTalk_in_10_Steps|the essence of AmbientTalk in 10 steps]]. To experiment with the language, you can download [[http://code.google.com/p/ambienttalk/wiki/EclipsePlugin|IdeAT, our Eclipse plug-in for AmbientTalk]] or simply download a stand-alone version of [[at:download|the interpreter]] and develop code using your favorite text editor.
+{{:at:atlogo.jpg?80  |:at:atlogo.jpg}} This page is also the home of AmbientTalk, our experimental programming language to develop applications for software running on mobile ad hoc networks. To get started, you can read the [[at:tutorial:tutorial|tutorial]] or [[http://code.google.com/p/ambienttalk/wiki/EssenceOfAmbientTalk|the essence of AmbientTalk in 10 steps]]. To experiment with the language, you can download [[http://code.google.com/p/ambienttalk/wiki/EclipsePlugin|IdeAT, our Eclipse plug-in for AmbientTalk]] or simply download a stand-alone version of [[at:download|the interpreter]] and develop code using your favorite text editor (an [[http://soft.vub.ac.be/pipermail/ambienttalk/2010-July/000043.html|Emacs mode]] and a [[http://soft.vub.ac.be/amop/downloads/at2textmate.zip|TextMate bundle]] are available).
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 Check out the [[at:introduction|introduction]] to AmbientTalk for a hands-on example showing you the benefits in actual code. Alternatively, glance at the [[at:byexample|key expressions]] in the language to get a 60-second overview of the language's design and intents.
-AmbientTalk is not our only research artifact. There is also [[crime:introduction|CRIME]], a data-driven programming language which explores the logic programming paradigm to tackle similar coordination issues in mobile ad hoc networks.
+You can also watch the following screencast where we show how to implement a simple echo server for mobile ad hoc networks. We introduce AmbientTalk's support for peer-to-peer service discovery, asynchronous messages, futures and how remote object references are resilient to network failures by default:
-====== Why another programming language? ======
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+<object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13727131&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13727131&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/13727131">AmbientTalk Screencast: a simple echo server</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user4375573">Tom Van Cutsem</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
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-"What does a high-level language accomplish? It frees a program from much of its accidental complexity. An abstract program consists of conceptual constructs: operations, data types, sequences, and communication. The concrete machine program is concerned with bits, registers, conditions, branches, channels, disks, and such. To the extent that the high-level language embodies the constructs one wants in the abstract program and avoids all lower ones, it eliminates a whole level of complexity that was never inherent in the program at all."   - Frederick Brooks, //No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of
+AmbientTalk is not our only research artifact. We have ported the ideas of Ambient-oriented Programming to Scheme, leading to the [[ischeme:ischeme]] language. There is also [[crime:introduction|CRIME]], a data-driven programming language which explores the logic programming paradigm to tackle similar coordination issues in mobile ad hoc networks.
-Software Engineering//
+AmbientTalk's [[http://soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/2007/vub-prog-tr-07-16.pdf|mirages]] have inspired the development of [[http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:proxies|proxies]] in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1R8KGKkDjU|ECMAScript harmony]].
 ====== Contact ======
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 ====== Research Topics ======
   * [[research:ambientrefs|Ambient References]]
-  * [[research:recap|Reactive Context-Aware Computing]]
+  * [[research:rp|Reactive Programming]]
+  * [[research:recap|Reactive Context-Aware Programming]]
   * [[research:context|Context-Dependent Behaviour Adaptations]]
   * [[research:dgc|Distributed Garbage Collection]]
+  * [[research:rfid|Mobile RFID-enabled Applications]]
   * [[research:modelling|Modelling for Ambient Intelligence]]
   * [[research:biomodels|Biologically-Inspired Programming Models]]