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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Systems and Networking is a broad and diverse area of computing research which spans areas including: systems, networks and distributed systems, programming languages and software engineering, ...

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Since the mid-1990s, the costs of compute, storage, and memory have been steadily plummeting. The commoditization revolution in compute ("x86 everywhere"), combined with the commercialization of ...

Basic principles behind distributed systems (collections of independent components that appear to users as a single coherent system) and main paradigms used to organize them. This course satisfies the ...

eXtreme Programming (XP) is a well-known agile software development method. While a number of reports have been published on explaining the XP methodology and the perceived benefits when using XP for ...