All distributed systems must, by their very nature, make use of some form of concurrent programming – otherwise they wouldn’t be able to get anything done. At a very simple level, you could say that ...

Asynchronous and concurrent programming can quickly get complicated. So we asked Microsoft MVP Jason Bock, who's speaking on this topic at the upcoming Visual Studio Live! Boston conference in June, ...

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.

The Ownership-based Metaobject Protocol (OMOP) is a unifying substrate for the implementation of concurrent programming abstractions. Similar to other metaobject protocols, it allows developers to ...

Concurrency is used pervasively in the development of large systems programs. However, concurrent programming is difficult because of the possibility of unexpected interference among concurrently ...

1 Describe key models of computation and associated programming language paradigms based on them.; 2 Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of various programming languages for different ...

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 ...

Cardio kills strength” is more than a myth, it’s a caution rooted in science. A new 11‑week study in well‑trained individuals helps peel back the layers on it ...

Q&A with Jason Bock: What's New with Concurrent Programming in .NET. From new features like async return types and advice on when to use the latest structures, here's Microsoft MVP Jason Bock's top ...