Together with the disruptive development of modern sub-symbolic approaches to artificial
intelligence (AI), symbolic approaches to classical AI are re-gaining momentum, as more …

The Art of Multiprocessor Programming, Second Edition, provides users with an authoritative
guide to multicore programming. This updated edition introduces higher level software …

Non-volatile main memory, such as memristors or phase change memory, can revolutionize
the way programs persist data. In-memory objects can themselves be persistent without the …

Innovations in hardware architecture, such as hyper-threading or multicore processors,
make parallel computing resources available for computer systems in different areas …

In this paper, we present some of the challenges and opportunities in software development
based on the current hardware trends and the impact of massive parallelism on both the …

Writing concurrent programs is notoriously difficult, and is of increasing practical importance.
A particular source of concern is that even correctly-implemented concurrency abstractions …

Drawing inspiration from several previous projects, we present an ownership-record-free
software transactional memory (STM) system that combines extremely low overhead with …

In this paper, we present the Habanero-Java (HJ) language developed at Rice University as
an extension to the original Java-based definition of the X10 language. HJ includes a …

Multicore hardware is making concurrent programs pervasive. Unfortunately, concurrent
programs are prone to bugs. Among different types of concurrency bugs, atomicity violation …

Software transactional memory: why is it only a research toy? Page 1 40 communications of the
acm | NovEmbER 2008 | vol. 51 | No. 11 practice trAnsActionAL MEMorY (TM)13 is a …