Distributed
Computing Pearls
Gadi Taubenfeld
Series Editor: Michel Raynal, University of Rennes, France and Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Distributed Computing Pearls
Gadi Taubenfeld, e Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya
Computers and computer networks are one of the most incredible inventions of the 20th
century, having an ever-expanding role in our daily lives by enabling complex human
activities in areas such as entertainment, education, and commerce. One of the most
challenging problems in computer science for the 21st century is to improve the design of
distributed systems where computing devices have to work together as a team to achieve
common goals.
In this book, I have tried to gently introduce the general reader to some of the
most fundamental issues and classical results of computer science underlying the design
of algorithms for distributed systems, so that the reader can get a feel of the nature of this
exciting and fascinating eld called distributed computing. e book will appeal to the
educated layperson and requires no computer-related background. I strongly suspect that
also most computer-knowledgeable readers will be able to learn something new.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Gadi Taubenfeld is a professor and past dean of the School of Computer Science at the
Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel. He is an established authority in the area
of concurrent and distributed computing and has published widely in leading journals
and conferences. He authored the book Synchronization Algorithms and Concurrent
Programming, published by Pearson Education. His primary research interests are in
concurrent and distributed computing. Gadi was the head of the computer science
division at Israel’s Open University; member of technical sta at AT&T Bell Laboratories;
consultant to AT&T Labs-Research; and a research scientist and lecturer at Yale University.
Gadi served as the program committee chair of PODC 2013 and DISC 2008 and holds a
Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.
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