Rachid Guerraoui (born January 5, 1967) is a Moroccan-Swiss computer scientist and a Full Professor in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC) at EPFL, known for his contributions in the fields of concurrent and distributed computing....
Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems, defined as computer systems whose inter-communicating components are located on different networked computers. The components of a distributed system communicate...
Rached or Rachid is a masculine given name and surname of Arabic origin.
In computer science, compare-and-swap (CAS) is an atomic instruction used in multithreading to achieve synchronization. It compares the contents of a memory location with a given (the previous) value and, only if they are the same, modifies the...
A distributed algorithm is an algorithm designed to run on computer hardware constructed from interconnected processors. Distributed algorithms are used in different application areas of distributed computing, such as telecommunications, scientific...
The following is a non-conclusive list of some notable modern Arab scientists and engineers.
Michel Raynal (born 1949) is a French informatics scientist, professor at IRISA, University of Rennes, France. He is known for his contributions in the fields of algorithms, computability, and fault-tolerance in the context of concurrent and...
A Byzantine fault is a condition of a system, particularly a distributed computing system, where a fault occurs such that different symptoms are presented to different observers, including imperfect information on whether a system component has...
This article lists people who have been named ACM Fellows, an award and fellowship granted by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) as its highest honorary grade of membership. The fellowship is reserved for the top 1% of ACM members who...
The Dahl–Nygaard Prize is awarded annually to a senior researcher with outstanding career contributions and a younger researcher who has demonstrated great potential. The senior prize is recognized as one of the most prestigious prizes in the area...