Résumé | Mutual exclusion, introduced by Dijkstra more than 50 years ago, is one of the most fundamental problems in distributed computing. In this talk, I will describe a few key results in classic shared-memory mutual exclusion research. Time permitting, I will also present novel variants of mutual exclusion whose goal is to model existing computer systems more realistically, as well as to model emerging new types of systems. The talk will be self-contained and no prior knowledge of shared-memory mutual exclusion is assumed.
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