eighty-twenty

I’ve put up a webpage, http://syndicate-lang.org/tonyg-dissertation/, which gathers together a number of resources related to my recently-completed PhD project:

• The dissertation itself, in both PDF and online HTML;
• A video recording of my dissertation defense talk;
• The slides I used for my talk;
• A source code snapshot of the Syndicate implementations and examples; and
• The proof scripts accompanying the dissertation.

Syndicate is a programming language design taking a new approach to communication and coordination in a concurrent setting.

It can be seen as a hybrid between Actor-style message-passing and tuplespace-style shared-blackboard communication, with some characteristics of each plus a few unique ones of its own.

Click through for the abstract from the dissertation.