Here is a paper of Bentley's that appears to be talking about the idea mentioned in the article: http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/p.bentley/SABEC2.pdf http://www

Here is a paper of Bentley's that appears to be talking about the idea mentioned in the article: http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/p.bentley/SABEC2.pdf http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/p.bentley/SABEC2.pdf He has written other relevant stuff, but publicly available full-text versions are hard to find. For those who want to search, the key phrase seems to be "systemic computation". And just in case it isn't clear: this is front-line research. There is no product to get the technical specs of.