Areas

• machine learning stuff
• filesystems
• composability
• interfaces
• databases
• compilers/languages
• mathematics
  • category theory, transformations/morphisms
• community
• distribution
• freedom
• performance
• security

Research

• Numenta

  • On Intelligence (by Jeff Hawkins)

• Viewpoints Research Institute

  • COLAs (Combined Object-Lambda Architectures) (Ian Piumarta's page; also see his talk and the accompanying slides)

• Workshop on Self-sustaining Systems 2008 (Chris Neukirchen's blog)

• Alarming Development

  • Working Group on Language Design (IFIP group)

• Intentional Software

  • HCI/Intentional_Programming_(Charles_Simonyi_interview)

• Illustrative Programming (Martin Fowler's blog)

• Code Bubbles

• Away with Applications: The Death of the Desktop (a google talk by Aza Raskin)

• Redesigning the Programming Experience (Joel Brandt, Stanford HCI Group)

• VIDE (VIsualize all moDel drivEn programming)

  • "Because of the lack of precise links between a program's features and the software that implements them, updating or modifying a program often turns out to be time-consuming and costly. [...] We're making the development of software a single process, a single toolchain, rather than a sequence of separate activities."