LIMITS 2015 aims to foster discussion on the impact of present or future ecological, material, energetic, and/or societal limits on computing. These topics are seldom discussed in contemporary computing research. The medium-term aim of the workshop is to foster concrete research, potentially of an interdisciplinary nature, that innovates on technologies, techniques, and contexts for computing within fundamental limits. A longer-term goal is to build a community around relevant topics and research, with LIMITS 2015 constituting the inaugural meeting. A goal of this community is to impact society through the design and development of computing systems in the abundant present for use in a future of limits and/or scarcity.
Bonnie Nardi, UC Irvine, nardi@ics.uci.edu
Daniel Pargman, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, pargman@kth.se (co-chair)
Teresa Cerratto Pargman, Stockholm University, tessy@dsv.su.se
Don Patterson, UC Irvine, djp3@ics.uci.edu
Barath Raghavan, ICSI, barath@icsi.berkeley.edu (co-chair)
Debra Richardson, UC Irvine, djr@ics.uci.edu
Bill Tomlinson, UC Irvine, wmt@uci.edu
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 9:00 | Welcome |
| 9:30 | Group Introductions |
| 10:30 | Break |
| 11:00 | Paper Session 1 |
| Deviant and Guilt-Ridden:
Computing Within Psychological Limits Bran Knowles (Lancaster University) and Elina Eriksson (KTH) |
|
| Information systems for
the age of consequences M. Six Silberman (UC Irvine) |
Collapse (and Other
Futures) Software Engineering Birgit Penzenstadler, Ankita Raturi, Debra J. Richardson, M. Six Silberman, and Bill Tomlinson (UC Irvine) |
| 12:00 | Paper Session 2 |
| Computing Efficiency,
Sufficiency, and Self-sufficiency: A Model for
Sustainability? Lorenz M. Hilty (University of Zurich) |
|
| Limits and Sustainable
Interaction Design: Obsolescence in a Future of Collapse and Resource
Scarcity Christian Remy and Elaine M. Huang (University of Zurich) |
What to do with all these
bits? Richard P. Donovan (UC Irvine) |
| 1:00 | Lunch |
| 2:00 | Paper Session 3 |
| Preliminary Thoughts on a
Taxonomy of Value for Sustainable Computing Kentaro Toyama (University of Michigan) |
|
| Energy-Agility: A New
Grid-centric Metric for Evaluating System Performance Supreeth Subramanya, Zain Mustafa, David Irwin, and Prashant Shenoy (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) |
Abstraction, Indirection,
and Sevareid’s Law: Towards Benign Computing Barath Raghavan (ICSI) |
| 3:00 | Breakout session 1: Creating fictional abstracts |
| 4:00 | Breakout session 2: How did you arrive at LIMITS? |
| 4:30 | Leave for Arboretum |
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 9:00 | Paper Session 4 |
| Understanding
Limits From a Social Ecological Perspective Teresa Cerratto Pargman and Somya Joshi (Stockholm University) |
|
| Foster the "mores", counter the
"limits" Xinning Gui and Bonnie Nardi (UC Irvine) |
Toward a Computational
Immigration Assistant Bill Tomlinson (UC Irvine) |
| 10:00 | Paper Session 5 |
| Computing within Limits and
ICTD Jay Chen (NYU) |
|
| Haitian Resiliency: A Case
Study in Intermittent Infrastructure Donald J. Patterson (UC Irvine) |
Cacophony: Building a
Resilient Internet of Things John H. Brock and Donald J. Patterson (UC Irvine) |
| 11:00 | Break |
| 11:30 | Breakout session 3: What makes LIMITS different? |
| 12:15 | Breakout session 4: How do we talk about this in public? |
| 1:00 | Lunch |
| 2:00 | Paper Session 6 |
| Inequality and Limits Bonnie Nardi (UC Irvine) |
|
| Understanding the Limits
of Competitive Processes Henry Lieberman and Christopher Fry (MIT) |
On the Limits of Limits Daniel Pargman (KTH) |
| 3:00 | Breakout session 5: What constitutes good LIMITS research? |
| 4:00 | Workshop summary |
| 5:00 | Closing remarks |
Please consider joining an informal gathering on Wednesday if you plan to be around Irvine. We will use the ``Hoffice'' methodology (which you can read about here and here) of having 45 minute work sessions followed by short breaks with social activities. During each work session you can choose to work by yourself (for example answering e-mail) or engage others in discussions of projects, proposals, or ideas that the workshop raised or that you develop during the day.
The gathering is planned from 9 am to 5 pm but the flexible format allows you to arrive late or leave early. The local organisers will provide us with suitable premises for the gathering but we need to know how many will come. Please send an e-mail to pargman@kth.se with the topic ``LIMITS Hoffice'' if you are interested in participating.