In 2005, the idea of Orthogonal Synchronization was proposed as an extension of Orthogonal Persistence. The motivation was to combine the advantages of native applications with those of web applications, enabling software that automatically updated code and data over the network, while running locally and therefore remaining functional in the face of network failure. Today, this goal is attracting increasing interest under the rubric of local-first software. This talk revisits the concept of orthogonal synchronization in light of recent work in the area.

Bio: Gilad Bracha is the creator of the Newspeak programming language and a well known researcher in the area of object-oriented programming languages. He was awarded the senior Dahl-Nygaard prize in 2017. He is currently a Technical Fellow at F5, and has held positions at Google, SAP Labs, Cadence, and Sun. He has authored or co-authored several books including the Java Language and Virtual Machine Specifications, and the Dart Programming Language. Prior to joining Sun, he worked on Strongtalk, the Animorphic Smalltalk System. He received his B.Sc in Mathematics and Computer Science from Ben Gurion University in Israel and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Utah.