Distributed Computing Pearls

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 Israels Open University; member of technical staff 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.

• Preface.- Acknowledgments.- Distributed Computing.- One Loaf of Bread, Please.- A Tale of Two Lovers.- A Night at the Movies.- The Fall of the Byzantine Empire.- Sightseeing in Paris.- Food for Thought.- All for One and One for All.- The World is a Playground.- Getting the Service You Deserve.- Bibliography.- Author's Biography.- Index .