Papers, Patents, & Talks Publications "Capability-based Financial Instruments" by Mark S. Miller, Chip Morningstar, Bill Frantz; to appear in Proceedings of Financial Cryptography 2000 (Springer-Verlag) "Learning Curve" by Mark S. Miller; a book review of John Holland's Hidden Order in Reason Magazine, Dec 1996 "Joule: Distributed Application Foundations" by E. Dean Tribble, Mark S. Miller, Norm Hardy, David Krieger; 1996 "An Automated Auction in ATM Network Bandwidth" by Mark S. Miller and David Krieger; in Market Based Control & Sun Labs tech report SML-94-0508 "Real Time Video Delivery with Market-based Resource Allocation" by Mark S. Miller, David Krieger, E. Dean Tribble; Agorics tech report. "Architectural Issues in Agoric Open Systems" by Mark S. Miller, David Krieger, E. Dean Tribble, Norm Hardy; Agorics tech report ADd007P May 1994 "An Introduction to Agoric Computation" by Mark S. Miller, David Krieger, E. Dean Tribble; Agorics tech report ADd006P May 1994 "The Open Society and its Media" by Mark Miller with E. Dean Tribble, Ravi Pandya, and Marc Stiegler; in Prospects in Nanotechnology "Betting, Bribery, and Bankruptcy-A Simulated Economy that Learns to Predict" by Ted Kaehler, Hadon Nash, Mark Miller; in IEEE CompCon Proceedings, pp. 357-361, 1989 Appearing in The Ecology of Computation (1988, North Holland Press/Elsevier): "Comparative Ecology: A Computational Perspective" by Mark Miller and K. Eric Drexler "Markets and Computation: Agoric Open Systems" by Mark Miller and K. Eric Drexler "Incentive Engineering for Computational Resource Management" by K. Eric Drexler and Mark Miller "Language Design and Open Systems" by Ken Kahn and Mark Miller "Vulcan: Logical Concurrent Objects" by Ken Kahn, E. Dean Tribble, Mark Miller, and Danny Bobrow; in Concurrent Prolog: Collected Papers "Definition Groups: Making Sources into First Class Objects" by Daniel Fogelsong, Danny Bobrow, Mark Miller; in Research Directions in Object Oriented Programming, "Interming: Unifying Keyword and Positional Notations" by Susan Hirsh, Ken Kahn, Mark Miller; Xerox PARC tech report, 1987) "Objects in Concurrent Logic Programming Languages" by Kenneth M. Kahn, Eric Dean Tribble, Mark S. Miller, Daniel G. Bobrow; in OOPSLA 1986: 242-257 "Logical Secrets" by Mark S. Miller, Daniel G. Bobrow, Eric Dean Tribble, Jacob Levy; in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP) 1987: 704-728 and in Concurrent Prolog: Collected Papers "Channels: A Generalization of Streams" by Eric Dean Tribble, Mark S. Miller, Kenneth M. Kahn, Daniel G. Bobrow, Curtis Abbott, Ehud Y. Shapiro; in ICLP 1987: 839-857 Patents: Lightweight Non-Repudiation of Extended Conversations (US05790669) Capability Security for Distributed Object Systems (US05852666 and US5781633) Persistence for Distributed Capabilities (US06049838) The Diverse Goods Auction (US5640569) Patent on Distributed Garbage Collection (US05960087) Generic Transfer of Exclusive Rights (US6161121) Two more patents are pending Papers by others relating to my work Mojonation is an agoric system, whose market-based distributed resource allocation is directly based on the original papers. Mariposa/Cohera: Stonebreaker's An Economic Paradigm for Query Processing and Data Migration in Mariposa Sidell's The Mariposa Agoric Distributed Database Management System (link appears to be broken) Informative article on Cohera in ComputerLetter. Howie Baetjer's Software As Capital : An Economic Perspective on Software Engineering. This is an edited form of Howie's dissertation, and was book of the month at Computer Literacy. A must read. Baclace's Competitive Agents for Information Filtering in CACM and Personal Information Intake Filtering, Bellcore Information Filtering Workshop JoSH's Combining Agoric and Genetic Methods in Stochastic Design "Interview with Mark Miller" in Extropy Magazine #11 (1993). High Tech Hayekians in Market Process Journal, Volume 8, 1990. Sun Microsystems WebMart Project (1996) and Sun Project Portfolio Report (1995). Forbes "Market-based Messaging Management" (1994). Agoric Systems covered in Wired Magazine While in college, I invented a multi-column browsing technique -- now known as Miller Columns -- that is being used at NeXT and Apple. Search : Talks at Lex Cybernetoria 2 Contracting-out Contract Law at Financial Cryptography 2000 Capability-based Financial Instruments at Financial Cryptography 1999 and Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop 1999 E and Smart Contracting at the Extropy 3 Conference Computer Security as the Future of Law at the Bionomics Institute Conferences 1994 "Automated Auctions of Network Bandwidth" 1993 "Evolving Market Landscapes" at George Mason University's "Evolutionary Economics" Conference 1990 "Agoric Open Systems"
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