Turning the Web Into a Computer

The explosive growth of the World Wide Web, along with the evolution of the HTTP, HTML, and CGIstandards, has enabled many applications which would not have been feasible just a few years ago. We believethat this evolution will eventually lead to support for general-purpose distributed computing over the Web. Suchcomputation minimally requires transparent access to: i) local and remote files, ii) private and public data,and iii) local and remote computation. In this paper, we demonstrate...