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Research and Advances Jan 1 2014

Control transactions without compromising their simplicity for the sake of expressiveness, application concurrency, or performance.

Computing Applications

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Research and Advances Apr 1 2011

Why STM Can Be More Than A Research Toy

Despite earlier claims, Software Transactional Memory outperforms sequential code.

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Nov 1 1999

Putting OO Distributed Programming to Work

An exercise in abstracting and factoring out failure detection.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Opinion Aug 1 1999

Thinking Objectively: Object-Oriented Abstractions For Distributed Programming

Going beyond wrapping existing built-in toolkits with OO-like dressing.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Apr 1 1999

OO Distributed Programming Is Not Distributed OO Programming

Object-oriented distributed programming is fundamentally different from building mechanisms that hide remote invocations behind traditional, centralized abstractions. The metaphor of a community of independent objects communicating by passing messages is misleading and dangerous when thinking in terms of a distributed system. That metaphor should not hide the significant difference between distributed interaction and local interaction. […]

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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