This issue of the Urbit Systems Technical Journal unveils technical descriptions of significant milestones in Urbit's ongoing development:
- The design and implementation of Urbit's named data networking scheme, Directed Messaging, a core component of the "Neo-Urbit" vision.
- "Subject knowledge analysis" for Hoon static analysis.
- Comet cryptography, a portion of the Groundwire proposal for a
revision of Urbit's peer-to-peer schema beyond Azimuth.
- The serialization mechanism for nouns.
- Obelisk, a return to E. F. Codd's relational algebra and SQL.
The Urbit Systems Technical Journal publishes articles on the ongoing
development of Urbit and on solid-state computing more. Like the
famous Bell System Technical Journal on which it is modeled, the
Urbit Systems Technical Journal aims to document the engineering work
necessary to realize the vision of computing as sovereign, deterministic,
and grounded on solid first principles. In so doing, we hope that these
technical problems come to interest and benefit the broader developer
community. Functional (as in programming) engineers are often on the
leading edge of software development, and the solutions they undertake
have required large-scale innovations in the field of computer science
generally. The volume of USTJ which you hold in your hand highlights
developments in the Nock computing system which underlies Urbit and
Nockchain. We welcome submissions from those engaged in making
computing more solid-state.
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