[svlug] ACCU meeting tonight

[Walter Vannini]

Feel free to forward this notice to anyone who is interested.

When:      Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Topic:     Threads in C++0x: An Update
Speaker:   Hans Boehm
Time:      6:30pm doors open
     7:00pm meeting begins
Where:     Symantec
     VCAFE building
     350 Ellis Street (near E. Middlefield Road)
     Mountain View, CA 94043
Map:       <http://tinyurl.com/334rv5>
Directions: VCAFE is accessible from the semicircular courtyard
between Symantec buildings <http://tinyurl.com/2dccgc>
Cost:      Free
More Info: <http://www.accu-usa.org>

Hans will give a high level overview of the threads API, atomic operations, and the basic  memory model.

Hans Boehm is the primary author of a widely used multithreaded garbage collector library. He was HPs representative to the effort to repair the Java "memory model", and has driven the effort to extend the C++ standard with clean semantics for threads, and particularly shared variable accesses.

He holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University. He is a past Chair of ACM SIGPLAN, and of the POPL, ISMM and VEE research symposia. He won the 2003 PLDI most influential paper award, and the 2006 SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award. He works for HP Laboratories.

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