50 years ago this year, Carl Hewitt invented the actor model, a computational model embracing non-determinism, which assumes all communication is asynchronous. Non-determinism enables concurrency, ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. Traditionally, developers are been forced to use different solutions when building for the cloud and ...

Microsoft is ready to show off the latest improvements it's made to a new experimental programming language for the cloud called Bosque. Bosque is being developed by a team at Microsoft Research led ...

Project Babylon would extend the reach of Java to foreign programming models such as machine learning models, GPUs, SQL, and differential programming. Java would be extended to foreign programming ...