Calendar

Herb Sutter and James Larus. Software and the Concurrency Revolution. Queue, 3(7):54-62, September 2005.

Celeste Biever. Chip revolution poses problems for programmers. New Scientist, 2594:26-27, March 2007.

Bryan Cantrill and Jeff Bonwick. Real-world concurrency. Communcations of the ACM, 51(11):34-39, November 2008.

Chapter 1 of

Mordechai Ben-Ari. Principles of Concurrent and Distributed Programming. Second edition. Addison-Wesley, Harlow, UK, 2006.

A guest lecture by librarian John Dupuis will take place in the Steacie Building, room 021. Ask at the library reference desk for room 021 if you cannot find it.

Leah Graham and Panagiotis Takis Metaxas. Of course it's true; I saw it on the Internet! Communications of the ACM, 46(5):70-75, May 2003.

Neil L. Waters. Why you can't cite Wikipedia in my class. Communications of the ACM, 50(9):15-17, September 2007.

P.J. Courtois, F. Heymans and D.L. Parnas. Concurrent control with "readers" and "writers". Communications of the ACM, 14(10): 667-668, October 1971.

Edsger W. Dijkstra. Two starvation-free solutions of a general exclusion problem. EWD 625.

C.A.R. Hoare. Monitors: an operating system structuring concept. Communications of the ACM, 17(10):549–557, October 1974.

Corrigenda

• Add count := count - 1 to the first remove procedure on page 553.
• Replace + with - in the release procedure on page 554.

C.A.R. Hoare. Communicating Sequential Processes. Communications of the ACM, 21(8):666-677, August 1978.

Additional material can be found in
Steve Schneider. Concurrent and Real-time Systems: the CSP Approach. John Wiley & Sons. 1999.

R. Kent Treiber. System programming: coping with parallelism. Report RJ 5118. IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA, USA. April 1986.

Presentations of the first assignment.

Lecture has been cancelled due to severe weather conditions.

Presentations of the first assignment.

Presentations of the first assignment.

Mary Campione, Kathy Walrath and Alison Huml. The Java Tutorial. Lesson: Threads: Doing Two or More Tasks At Once.

Mary Campione, Kathy Walrath and Alison Huml. The Java Tutorial. Lesson: Threads: Doing Two or More Tasks At Once.

Section 3.1 and Chapter 12 of
Brian Goetz, Tim Peierls, Joshua Bloch, Joseph Bowbeer, David Holmes and Doug Lea. Java Concurrency in Practice. Addison-Wesley, 2006.

A guest lecture by Trevor Brown on MTL. Information about MTL can be found here

Communicating Sequential Processes for Java

Cary Millsap. Thinking clearly about performance, part 1. Communications of the ACM, 53(9):55-60, September 2010.

No reading material.

A guest lecture by Susan Visser, Publishing Program Manager at IBM, on writing.

Presentations of the second assignment.

Presentations of the second assignment.

Guest lecture by Nastaran Shafiei on Java PathFinder.

Presentations of the second assignment.

Guest lecture by Nastaran Shafiei on Java PathFinder.

Java Memory Model.

Presentations of the third assignment.

Presentations of the third assignment.