My small brush with this: back in the summer of 1990, I did a summer internship with Doug Lea who led the JSR 166 group that led to java.util.concurrent. My wor

My small brush with this: back in the summer of 1990, I did a summer internship with Doug Lea who led the JSR 166 group that led to java.util.concurrent. My work was on a concurrency library for a parallel computer called the Encore Multimax