The Origin of Concurrent Programming

An essential reader containing the 19 most important papers in the invention and early development of concurrent programming and its relevance to computer science and computer engineering. The editor provides an overview chapter and puts all developments in perspective with chapter introductions and expository apparatus. Essential resource for graduates, professionals, and researchers in CS with an interest in concurrent programming principles.

Inhalt
Overview.- The Invention of Concurrent Programming.- I Conceptual Innovation.- 1 Cooperating Sequential Processes.- 2 The Structure of the THE Multiprogramming System.- 3 RC 4000 Software: Multiprogramming System.- 4 Hierarchical Ordering of Sequential Processes.- II Programming Language Concepts.- 5 Towards a Theory of Parallel Programming.- 6 An Outline of a Course on Operating System Principles.- 7 Structured Multiprogramming.- 8 Shared Classes.- 9 Monitors: An Operating System Structuring Concept.- III Concurrent Programming Languages.- 10 The Programming Language Concurrent Pascal.- IV Model Operating Systems.- 11 The Solo Operating System: A Concurrent Pascal Program.- 12 The Solo Operating System: Processes, Monitors and Classes.- 13 Design Principles.- V Distributed Computing.- 14 A Synthesis Emerging?.- 15 Communicating Sequential Processes.- 16 Distributed Processes: A Concurrent Programming Concept.- 17 JoyceA Programming Language for Distributed Systems.- VI Implementation Issues.- 18 SuperPascal: A Publication Language for Parallel Scientific Computing.- 19 Efficient Parallel Recursion.