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is an edited transcript of a talk given at last years conference To preserve the flavor of the talk and the ques tions 1have done very little editingmostly eliminating su perfluous words and ph. Cheap Paxos a variant of the Paxos al gorithm guarantees liveness under the additional as sumption that the set of nonfaulty processors does not jump around too fast but uses only F 1 main pro cessors that actually execute the system and F auxiliar I have never even taken a computer science course However I have worked with a number of computer engineers both hardware and software engineers and I have seen what they knew and what they didnt know that I felt they should have So I have some thou -. Bhavya. . Kilari. Dr. . Yanqing. Zhang, . CSc. 8320. PREVIEW. P. ART. I. : . I. NTRODUCTION. Transaction Processing System. [. R. Chow & T. Johnson, 1997. Elaine Chew. QMUL: ELE021/ELED021/ELEM021. 26 March 2012. Sources. Hillier, F. S. & G. J. Lieberman. Introduction to Operations Research. Chapter 11: Dynamic Programming, 7. th. , 8. th. , 9. th. Prof. O. Nierstrasz. Selected material © Magee and Kramer. © Oscar Nierstrasz. 2. Roadmap. Modelling Concurrency. Finite State Processes . Labelled Transition Systems. Java Threads. Thread creation. on Program . Analysis. Weizmann Institute . of Science. Guy Katz. and David . Harel. Overview. Program analysis: verification, repair, synthesis, . etc. Very desirable, but very difficult. State explosion. EE324 Lecture 11. Assignment . Start early!. People who are doing well vs. Not doing well. . Last . Time–. RPC. Why remote procedure calls?. Simple way to pass control and data. Elegant transparent way to distribute application. Concurrency Topics. 1. Sequential programming notation. 2. Expressing concurrency with . co. and . process. . 3. States and hardware. 4. Atomic actions. 5. Inter-leavings and histories. 6. The finite progress assumption. Lecture 1. Introduction to Multithreading & Fork-Join Parallelism. Steve . Wolfman. , based on work by Dan . Grossman. LICENSE. : This file is licensed under a . Creative . Commons Attribution 3.0 . RSVP. Text: . Rev. 19:8. Intro. Invited: RSVP. God . has . made the invitation: . “. All things are ready! . Come . to the Feast!”. Created by Nathan L Morrison, nmorrison1939@gmail.com. These . things . Software & the Concurrency Revolution by Sutter & Larus ACM Queue Magazine, Sept. 2005 For CMPS 5433 - Halverson 1 In a Nutshell “The concurrency revolution is primarily a software revolution -. Bhavya. . Kilari. Dr. . Yanqing. Zhang, . CSc. 8320. PREVIEW. P. ART. I. : . I. NTRODUCTION. Transaction Processing System [. R. Chow & T. Johnson, 1997. supportsponsoredytheUnitedStatesDefenseAdvancedResearchProjectsBroadcastapplicationshaeapotenlargenberofreceivTheauthenticationinforma-tionshouldbeindependentofthenberofreceivSmallhmessagecarriesauthe Ross Greene, . Ph.D. , . j.Stuart. . Ablon. , . Phd. Philosophical Approach. 1) Kids do well if they “want to” – Motivational Approach. Level/Reward Systems. Punishment produces behavioral change..