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The invention of concurrent programming
The origin of concurrent programming: from semaphores to remote procedure calls, Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., New York, NY, USA, (2002)
Abstract
The author selects classic papers written by the computer scientists who made the major breakthroughs in concurrent programming. These papers cover the pioneering era of the field from the semaphores of the mid 1960s to the remote procedure calls of the late 1970s. The author summarizes the classic papers and puts them in historical perspective.
