Dr. Aleksandar Prokopec is a software developer and a concurrent and distributed programming researcher, working at Oracle Labs. He obtained a PhD in Computer Science from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland. As a doctoral assistant and member of the Scala team at EPFL, he actively contributed to the Scala programming language, and has worked on programming abstractions for concurrency, data-parallel programming support, and concurrent data structures for Scala. He created the Scala Parallel Collections framework, which is a library for high-level data-parallel programming in Scala, and participated in working groups for Scala concurrency libraries. He previously worked at Google.
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Discover the fundamentals of parallel programming and learn how to effectively utilize multiple processors for enhanced performance. This course explores task and data parallelism, applying functional programming ideas to modern computing challenges.
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Discover the art and science of parallel programming with this expert-led Scala 2 course on Coursera. Learn to harness the power of multiple processors, understand task and data parallelism, and apply functional programming concepts for enhanced efficiency in multi-core environments. Perfect for developers looking to optimize performance and leverage modern hardware capabilities.