About the Author

Joe Duffy is the development lead, architect, and founder of the Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework team at Microsoft, in the Visual Studio division. In addition to hacking code and managing a team of amazing developers, he defines the team’s long-term vision and strategy. His current interests include functional programming, first-class concurrency safety in the type system and creating programming models that will enable everyday people to exploit GPUs and SIMD style processors. Joe had previous positions at Microsoft as the developer for Parallel LINQ (PLINQ) and the concurrency program manager for the Common Language Runtime (CLR). Before joining Microsoft, he had seven years of professional programming experience, ...

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