take one of the topics in the readings,

find a reference outside our readings talking about that topic

cite your reference

tell us a little about how the two presentations relate to each other

tell us what you have learned about that topic from your readings

Some suggested topics:

Spin locks

Atomic read/write operations vs the real world

Sequentially consistent memory

Memory barrier instructions

Test and set locks: getAndSet (), compareAndSet ()

Monitors, locks, conditions

Locked queue

Lost wake up events

Readers writers locks

Reentrant locks

Semaphores

Threads - creating and running them

Thread structure of the JVM and the Java GUI classes

Race conditions and deadlocks

Writing a concurrent program

condition variables

producer-consumer problem

finding objects

active, passive and control objects