Ptolemy Project

The Ptolemy Project is an ongoing project focused on building and testing systems that can work together at the same time and in real time. Its main goal is to create tools that help designers put together different parts of a system so they can work together smoothly. The most important result of this project is a tool called Ptolemy II, which helps people design and test these systems.

This project is carried out at the Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems Center in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. It is led by Prof. Edward A. Lee. The Ptolemy Project uses special ways to describe how different parts of a system talk to each other, called models of computation.

The project gets its name from Claudius Ptolemaeus, a Greek astronomer from the 2nd century who made important contributions to science and geography. Another related project called the Kepler Project, which involves researchers from three University of California campuses, has created a system for managing scientific tasks that is based on the Ptolemy II tool.