On Notifications.
This essay explores the nature and function of notifications across both everyday human experiences and emerging computational systems. The author argues that notifications serve a fundamental role in synchronizing otherwise asynchronous processes, whether it's boiling spaghetti or managing distribu...
| Publicado en: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 68; no. 8; pp. 5 - 6 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Aug2025
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