Computer science

ERC Advanced Investigator Grant: Concurrency Made Easy

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We have just been awarded an ERC Advanced Investigator Grant project on concurrent programming (2.5 M EUR). This article is a brief introduction to the project and a first announcement of the positions (postdocs, phds, engineer) for which we will be advertising.




Guest article: funding great research

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In a blog article posted in its original version on this blog [1] and in a revised version on the Communications of the ACM blog [2], I emphasized the relevance of incremental research. Recently Mikkel Thorup sent me some interesting comments, which I am publishing here as the first Guest Column of this blog. References … Read more




Ado About The Resource That Was (Not)

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The resources we have at our disposal on a computing system may be huge, but they are always finite, and our programs’ appetite for resources will eventually exhaust them. At that stage, we have to deal with the SBYBAW rule, which sounds like a tautology but is an encouragement to look for clever algorithms: techniques for freeing resources when no resources remain may not request new resources.