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Concurrency: Past and Present

Presented by Brian Goetz on Aug 26, 2008 08:00 AM

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Java
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Summary
Brian Goetz discusses the difficulties of creating multithreaded programs correctly, incorrect synchronization, race conditions, deadlock, Software Transactional Memory, the history of concurrency, alternatives to threads, Erlang, Scala, and recommendations for concurrency in Java.

Bio
Brian Goetz has been a professional software developer for 20 years. He is the author of over 75 articles on software development, and his book, Java Concurrency In Practice, was published in May 2006 by Addison-Wesley. He serves on the JCP Expert Groups for JSRs 166 (concurrency utilities), 107 (caching), and 305 (annotations for safety analysis).

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Slow down. by Ashwanth Fernando Posted Aug 26, 2008 9:55 AM
Re: Slow down. by Paulo Trecenti Posted Aug 26, 2008 11:19 PM
transcripts please! by test freak Posted Aug 28, 2008 2:23 AM
Great ! by Dylan Stamat Posted Aug 28, 2008 10:43 PM
Great by Juven Xu Posted Aug 30, 2008 8:23 AM
Cool by Surendran Roundry Posted Sep 2, 2008 2:22 AM
Worth it by Umberto Zappia Posted Sep 12, 2008 5:53 AM
Message Based Concurrency in Java by Mike Rettig Posted Sep 13, 2008 1:30 PM
Leonardinius Daugavpils by Leonid Maslov Posted Sep 22, 2008 11:18 AM
Re: Leonardinius Daugavpils by Leonid Maslov Posted Sep 22, 2008 11:22 AM
Re: Leonardinius Daugavpils by Stefan Tilkov Posted Sep 22, 2008 3:30 PM
Re: Leonardinius Daugavpils by Ryan Slobojan Posted Sep 23, 2008 9:41 AM
Re: Leonardinius Daugavpils by Leonid Maslov Posted Sep 23, 2008 1:37 PM
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    Slow down.

    Aug 26, 2008 9:55 AM by Ashwanth Fernando

    Brian, please ignore the below statement if you have physical problems with speech, but if you slow down a bit without the "unnnnn unnnnn unnnn ummmmm ummmms", it will be so much better. Your book concurrency in action is phenomenal and a gem in the piles of crap these days. Goes without saying that you are definitely "Doug Lea" material, but it would be great if you could slow down a bit to let us understand a bit from you. However, nothing is gonna stop me from reading your books ;-).

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    Re: Slow down.

    Aug 26, 2008 11:19 PM by Paulo Trecenti

    Hi, did you see something about Ada in Adacore.com? Ada is not much better than all these other languages?

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    transcripts please!

    Aug 28, 2008 2:23 AM by test freak

    Hi, would it be possible to provide transcripts?

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    Great !

    Aug 28, 2008 10:43 PM by Dylan Stamat

    Fantastic presentation, and I thought the deliveries pace was perfect. Thank you Brian !

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    Great

    Aug 30, 2008 8:23 AM by Juven Xu

    Really wonderful presentation, thanks

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    Cool

    Sep 2, 2008 2:22 AM by Surendran Roundry

    A cool,informative and a wonderfull presentation,Thank you Brian Goetz. I did enjoy the introduction :-)

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    Worth it

    Sep 12, 2008 5:53 AM by Umberto Zappia

    A top notch presentation.

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    Message Based Concurrency in Java

    Sep 13, 2008 1:30 PM by Mike Rettig

    Message based concurrency is also available as a library for plain old Java.

    Jetlang Messaging Library

    Mike Rettig
    Jetlang Developer

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    Leonardinius Daugavpils

    Sep 22, 2008 11:18 AM by Leonid Maslov

    I'm _Leonardinius Daugavpils_ mentioned above. Only, leonardinius is my display name (nickname), and Daugavpils - is the place I come from :D This would wonderful if someone would change this to Leonid Maslov. Thanx in advance. // If you are not confident about it - try to contact blog owner - leonidms@gmail.com for clarification.

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    Re: Leonardinius Daugavpils

    Sep 22, 2008 11:22 AM by Leonid Maslov

    http://leonardinius.blogspot.com/2008/09/infoq-called-me-leonardiniu-daugavpils.html

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    Re: Leonardinius Daugavpils

    Sep 22, 2008 3:30 PM by Stefan Tilkov

    Hi Leonid, thanks for letting us know - I've fixed it.

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    Re: Leonardinius Daugavpils

    Sep 23, 2008 9:41 AM by Ryan Slobojan

    Hi Leonid,

    My apologies for the mix-up on that - when I looked at your blog, in the upper right corner I saw:

    leonardinius Daugavpils/Riga, Latvia

    which I interpreted as being your name, with Riga as your hometown.

    Thanks for fixing that Stefan!

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    Re: Leonardinius Daugavpils

    Sep 23, 2008 1:37 PM by Leonid Maslov

    Hi Ryan and Stefan.
    Not a big deal, I really understand the cause of this. Probably I would get it wrong too (it's just this widget, which displays profile info in some weird manner).

    Anyway, thanks a lot for finding that article and mentioning it here. Thanks Ryan and Stefan.

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