Behind games and entertainment, training and education and branded experience were most common use cases for augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality. As Facebook explains, the ...

The basic programming model of languages, like Java, is thread based and while multithreaded applications aren’t terribly hard to write, there are challenges to writing them correctly. What’s ...

Memory models offer the formal frameworks that define how operations on memory are executed in environments with concurrent processes. By establishing rules for the ordering and visibility of memory ...

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 ...

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Session types have emerged as a rigorous formalism for specifying and verifying communication protocols in concurrent systems. They provide a structured approach to ensuring that interactions among ...

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You will not get the automatic speedup for your software when you upgrade to a new computer, since the frequency scaling is virtually stopped, and you only get more ...

Five years after Swift 5, Apple's open-source programming language has been released in version 6.0. The release primarily completes the preparatory work of the last point releases in the area of ...