Behind games and entertainment, training and education and branded experience were most common use cases for augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality. As Facebook explains, the ...

The difference between distributed computing and concurrent programming is a common area of confusion as there is a significant amount of overlap between the two when you set out to accomplish ...

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From new features like async return types and advice on when to use the latest structures, here's Microsoft MVP Jason Bock's top tips for developers currently working with concurrent and asynchronous ...

Memory models offer the formal frameworks that define how operations on memory are executed in environments with concurrent processes. By establishing rules for the ordering and visibility of memory ...

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You will not get the automatic speedup for your software when you upgrade to a new computer, since the frequency scaling is virtually stopped, and you only get more ...

It's been two years since Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates talked up Dryad, Microsoft's concurrent-programming competitor to Google's MapReduce and Apache Hadoop. But this week, Dryad was back on the ...

San Francisco, Ca. – Borrowing the best of programming languages such as C and C++ and scripting languages such as Python, Google has just taken the wraps off Go, a programming language optimized for ...