2010 Keynote: Maurice Herlihy, Transactional Memory Today

In the race to find a parallel programming model that is both scalable to many cores and comprehensible to many mortals, “Transactional Memory” is a leading contender. Moreover, it can be done in software, which means there are library-based approaches! Thus, at BoostCon this year we have a strong track focusing on this technological frontier, and as a foundation, our keynote speaker is one of the pioneers. Maurice Herlihy, winner of the 2003 Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing and co-winner of the 2004 Goedel Prize, coined the term “Transactional Memory” in a 1993 paper that won the ISCA Influential Paper award in 2008. This is not one you’ll want to miss!