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Contents
Actor Model
Fundamental concepts.
Illustrations
Direct communication and asynchrony.
Locality and Security.
Privacy-friendly, client cloud computing.
Computational Representation Theorem
Comparison with other models of message-passing concurrency
ActorScript
Meta-circular Eval procedure in Lisp.
Eval as a Message.
Procedure invocations.
Control expressions.
Structural Expressions.
Compound Expressions.
Parallelism Expressions.
Functional Programming
Logic Programming.
Concurrent Programming.
Acknowledgment
Bibliography
Appendix: Historical Background
Petri nets
Simula
Smalltalk-72
Actors
Lambda calculus redux
Actor Semantics
Logic Programming
Proof Theory
Early Actor Programming languages
Machines
Pi-calculus
Was the Actor model premature?
End Notes





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