LIMITS 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. 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.
Daniel Pargman, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, pargman@kth.se (co-chair)
Barath Raghavan, ICSI, barath@icsi.berkeley.edu (co-chair)
Jay Chen, NYU, jay.chen@nyu.edu
Elina Eriksson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, elina@kth.se
Bonnie Nardi, UC Irvine, nardi@ics.uci.edu
Teresa Cerratto Pargman, Stockholm University, tessy@dsv.su.se
Don Patterson, Westmont College, d_j_p_3@djp3.net
Debra Richardson, UC Irvine, djr@ics.uci.edu
Bill Tomlinson, UC Irvine, wmt@uci.edu
Papers can be cited as: "In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Computing within Limits (LIMITS '16), Irvine, CA, USA, 2016. ACM" or, alternatively, "LIMITS '16: In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Computing within Limits, Irvine, CA, USA, 2016. ACM". See the ACM Digital Library LIMITS '16 Table of Contents for an official list of papers and citation information.
| Time | Activity |
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| 9:00 | Welcome |
| 9:15 | Invited Talk Humility, Discomfort & Awe: Developing our capacity for longer-term thinking Lisa Nathan (UBC) |
| 10:15 | Break |
| 10:30 | Paper Session 1 |
| A Strategy For Limits-Aware Computing Jay Chen (NYU) |
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| Refactoring Society: Systems Complexity in an Age of Limits Barath Raghavan (ICSI) and Daniel Pargman (KTH) |
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| 11:10 | Break |
| 11:30 | Breakout session 1: How did you arrive at LIMITS? |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
| 1:30 | Invited Talk Quantifying the Energy Challenge: A physics perspective Tom Murphy (UCSD) |
| 2:30 | Paper Session 2 |
| A Circular Commons for Digital Devices David Franquesa, Leandro Navarro, and Xavier Bustamante (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) |
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| 3D Printing: A Future Collapse-Compliant Means of Production Samantha McDonald (UMBC) |
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| 3:10 | Break |
| 3:40 | Paper Session 3 |
| Whose Future Is It Anyway? Limits within Policy Modeling Somya Joshi, Teresa Cerratto-Pargman, Andreas Gazis (Stockholm University), and Daniel Pargman (KTH) |
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| Computing beyond Gender-Imposed Limits Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed (Cornell), Nova Ahmed (North South University), Faheem Hussain (SUNY Korea), and Neha Kumar (Georgia Tech) |
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| 4:20 | Invited Discussion: Tapan Parikh (UC Berkeley / Cornell Tech) |
| 4:40 | Breakout session 2: Brainstorming: what projects/studies would you like to do or have someone else do? |
| 5:10 | Dinner |
| Time | Activity |
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| 9:00 | Invited Talk Alternative Agricultural Systems for Sustainable Food Production Sarah Lovell (UIUC) |
| 10:00 | Break |
| 10:30 | Paper Session 4 |
| A Report from an Online Course on Global Disruption and Information Technology Bill Tomlinson (UC Irvine), Donald Patterson (Westmont), and Bonnie Nardi (UC Irvine) |
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| Empowering Limitations Douglas Schuler (Evergreen State College) |
Taming Limits with Approximate Networking Junaid Qadir (ITU-Punjab), Arjuna Sathiaseelan, Liang Wang, and Jon Crowcroft (University of Cambridge) |
| 11:30 | Lunch |
| 1:00 | Paper Session 5 |
| The Limits of Our Imagination: Design Fiction as a Strategy for Engaging with Dystopian Futures Joshua Tanenbaum, Marcel Pufal, and Karen Tanenbaum (UC Irvine) |
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| Macroscopically Sustainable Networking: On Internet Quines Barath Raghavan (ICSI) and Shaddi Hasan (UC Berkeley) |
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| 2:00 | Breakout session 3: Collaborations: grants, papers, projects. |
| 2:30 | Paper Session 6 |
| Limits to the Sharing Economy Daniel Pargman, Elina Eriksson (KTH), and Adrian Friday (Lancaster University) |
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| Navigating Connectivity in Reduced Infrastructure Environments Paul Schmitt and Elizabeth Belding (UC Santa Barbara) |
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| 3:10 | Break |
| 3:30 | Paper Session 7 |
| Are there limits to growth in data traffic?: On time use, data generation and speed Mike Hazas, Janine Morley, Oliver Bates, and Adrian Friday (Lancaster University) |
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| Situating Shelter Design and Provision in ICT Discourse for Scarce-resource Contexts Samar Sabie (University of Toronto), Maha Salman (Yorkville University), and Steve Easterbrook (University of Toronto) |
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| 4:10 | Breakout session 4: Dear Colleague Letters. |
| 5:00 | Dinner |
