One of the hardest tricks for any programmer to do is to master concurrent programming. Facebook's new tool, RacerD, goes a long way to helping developers spot concurrency errors.

In his latest book "Programming Concurrency on the JVM" author Venkat Subramaniam talks about the concurrency techniques using different JVM programming languages. He also discusses Software ...

Memory models offer the formal frameworks that define how operations on memory are executed in environments with concurrent processes. By establishing rules for the ordering and visibility of ...

The actor model facilitates concurrent programming by allowing a safer mechanism for message-passing between processes (or actors). Implementations of this model vary between languages and frameworks.

We will also discuss how to debug and check concurrent programs, which may give your different behaviors at different executions. REQUIRED TEXT: Herlihy and Shavit, The Art of Multiprocessor ...

Session types have emerged as a rigorous formalism for specifying and verifying communication protocols in concurrent systems. They provide a structured approach to ensuring that interactions ...

Rob Pike discusses concurrency in programming languages: CSP, channels, the role of coroutines, Plan 9, MapReduce and Sawzall, processes vs threads in Unix, and more programming language history.

Microsoft to businesses: No standalone concurrent programming toolkit for you Microsoft announced last week a new version of its Robotics Developer Studio (RDS) suite.