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The following is based on an after-dinner speech at the conference to celebrate the 25th anniversary of CSP. It’s an informal – and personal – account of the development of CSP and the related work on the occam language and the Inmos transputer. This involved many exceptional people, and I’ve only been able to mention a few of them – but before I start – I’d like to thank them all.
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May, D. (2005). CSP, occam and Transputers. In: Abdallah, A.E., Jones, C.B., Sanders, J.W. (eds) Communicating Sequential Processes. The First 25 Years. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3525. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11423348_5
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