MIT Technology Review has written a comprehensive article about Jakub Dostal’s Diff Displays that track visual changes on unattended displays. Jakub presented the work two weeks ago at the 18th ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces in Santa Monica, California, USA. The Diff Displays project is part of Jakub’s PhD thesis on proximity-aware user interfaces. His … MIT Technology Review – Jakub Dostal
Title: “Shared-Memory Concurrency in the Real World: Working with Relaxed Memory Consistency” Abstract: Shared-memory concurrency is now mainstream, from phones to servers. However, real-world implementations do not validate the basic assumption of Sequential Consistency traditionally made in work on concurrent programming and verification. Instead, we get subtle relaxed consistency models. Furthermore, the consistency models of … Talk by Susmit Sarkar
The SLPS is a forum for discussion of all aspects of programming languages. We meet for a day once every few months, at some congenial location in Scotland. You will find the program and schedule for the next session of SPLS at St Andrews here.