So what’s the difference? At a fundamental level, distributed computing and concurrent programming are simply descriptive terms that refer to ways of getting work done at runtime (as is parallel ...

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.

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We propose a programming model for distributed concurrent systems with mobile objects in the context of a process calculus. Code mobility is induced by lexical scoping on names. Objects and messages ...

This paper describes how a concept-based approach to teaching was used to update how concurrent and distributed systems were taught at the University of Copenhagen. This approach focuses on discussion ...

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 ...

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