In the future, Duffy expects to see a return of distributed programming with increasingly fine-grained distributed systems that will make systems look more and more like classic concurrent systems.

The difference between distributed computing and concurrent programming is a common area of confusion as there is a significant amount of overlap between the two when you set out to accomplish ...

Session Types and Concurrency in Programming Languages Publication Trend The graph below shows the total number of publications each year in Session Types and Concurrency in Programming Languages.

Microsoft announced last week a new version of its Robotics Developer Studio (RDS) suite. Company officials emphasized the fact Microsoft is making the R3 version of RDS available freely to all -- ...

TLA+ is a high-level programming language used to model complex, concurrent, and distributed programs and systems. It was created by Leslie Lamport and is backed by Amazon Web Services, Microsoft ...

It's been two years since Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates talked up Dryad, Microsoft's concurrent-programming competitor to Google's MapReduce and Apache Hadoop. But this week, Dryad was back on the ...

Transactional memory systems represent a paradigm shift in concurrent programming by abstracting low-level lock management and enabling sequences of operations to be executed as atomic transactions.

Gowtham Kaki is an assistant professor joining the Department of Computer Science in fall 2020. His research is in the areas of Programming Languages and Formal Methods with a focus on automated ...