The Department of Computer Science at Brown will soon eliminate its concurrent master’s program, which allows students to receive both a Bachelor of Science and a master’s degree in either computer ...

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 ...

When Microsoft delivered RDS 2008, the company made the CCR/DSS toolkit available as a standalone product -- a request of a number of business users who wanted access to the concurrent technology ...

In a desktop application, a benefit is that the UI stays responsive (i.e., doesn't "hang") while the application does things like fetching or processing data. The concept of non-blocking operations is ...

Collectively, these studies underscore the global significance of memory model research, with practical applications spanning from cloud computing infrastructures to real-time embedded systems.