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Ozma: Extending Scala with Oz Concurrency
Summary
Peter Van Roy discusses solving concurrency issues with deterministic concurrency using Ozma, an extension of the Scala language employing the Oz deterministic dataflow concepts.
Bio
Peter Van Roy is coauthor of "Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming" and professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. He wrote the Aquarius Prolog compiler, and the Macintosh application FractaSketch. He received a M.S. and Ph.D. in CS from the University of California at Berkeley and "Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches" from the Université Paris Diderot.
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