Actors - A Model Of Concurrent Computation In Distributed Systems (1985)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46851192 https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA157917.pdf A foundational model of concurrency is developed in this thesis. We examine issues in the design of parallel systems and show why the actor model is suitable for exploiting large-scale parallelism. Concurrency in actors is constrained only by the availability of hardware resources and by the logical…