@article{Xu2025, 
author = {Zhi-Wei Xu and Zi-Shu Yu and Feng-Zhi Li and Yao Zhang},
title = {Hypertasking: From Information Web to Computing Utility},
year = {2025},
journal = {Journal of Computer Science and Technology},
volume = {40},
number = {3},
pages = {607-620},
keywords = {cloud computing, computing utility, hypermedia, hypertask, stored-computer architecture},
url = {https://www.sciopen.com/article/10.1007/s11390-025-5126-4},
doi = {10.1007/s11390-025-5126-4},
abstract = {John McCarthy proposed the vision of utility computing in 1961. Barbara Liskov proposed a related vision of abstraction-powered Internet Computer in 2009. This position paper outlines a distributed computing model towards realizing the McCarthy-Liskov vision. This “hypertasking” model aims at extending the “hypermedia” model of the World Wide Web into a model of World Wide Computing Utility, turning an information web into a computing web. The hypertasking model contains three abstractions, including global resource space, stored-computer architecture, and monadic hypermedia. A prototype architecture and experimental evidence are presented to support this perspective.}
}