Actor Systems for Real-time Computation
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MIT-LCS-TR-197.pdf
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5.44 MB
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Author(s)
Baker, Henry Givens, Jr.
Advisor(s)
Hewitt, Carl
Date Issued
March 1978
Series/Report no.
MIT-LCS-TR-197
Abstract
Actor theory was invented by Hewitt and collaborators as a synthesis of many of the ideas from the high-level languages LISP, GEDANKEN, SMALLTALK, SIMULA-67, and others. Actor theory consists of a group of active objects called Actors, which communicate by passing messages to one another.
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