Information traveling at the speed of light hits a physical limit: a causal island. We experience these causal islands in our distributed systems as latency — a function of our proximity to data centers, to each other, and to the quality of our connectivity. Novel approaches to the Future of Computing — programming languages, networks, interfaces, hardware, and more — end up stranded on similar causal islands. They propagate within different industries, disciplines, and communities at uneven speeds. We’re gathering the brightest minds to challenging your idea of what’s possible, and bridging those islands together. Learn from diverse and unique perspectives across disciplines, discover exciting new areas of research and development, and make plans for ongoing collaboration.
About Causal Islands
Causal Islands is about connecting people across industries, disciplines, and communities to share, design, and learn about the future of computing together.
Causal Islands 2023
Causal Islands Los Angeles · Luma
Causal Islands LA is the first community edition of the 2023 conference held in Toronto in 2023. Causal Islands at a high level is about the future of…
Brendan O'Brien (number 0) - Can Sync Be Network-optional?
Peter van Hardenberg - Ink and Switch, Automerge
DLS 2020 Keynote by Vanessa Freudenberg: Croquet. A Unique Collaboration Architecture
Local-First Software: Taking Back Control of Our Data | a mini-doc
Sync Panel Discussion - Sync (Sync)
Timeline
Thinking Machines Inc. develops a new Internet protocol dubbed WAIS. Users can download a WAIS client to search through an array of distributed servers and access the documents stored there. The protocol supports fuzzy searching, custom tailored results, and decentralized data storage, but ultimately loses out to the web.
Confronting Data Centers, Deep-Sea Cables, and Colonial Legacies in the South Pacific
As big tech companies appeal to small island countries’ anxieties about being left behind, Emma Quilty considers how efforts to transform islands into digital hubs obscure the power and agency of these places and their people.
Governing Together: Toward Infrastructure for Community-Run Social Media | Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Collaborative and social computing theory, concepts and paradigms
Atmospheric Computing Research Proposal
Atmospheric computing research proposal exploring interconnected computing islands and cloud infrastructures enabled by open social protocols.
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Sometimes the most exciting discoveries happen by accident. While reading this thoughtful field report from GainForest https://lnkd.in/eihbfggg, I was reminded why I've been so impressed by the wa...
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