Christos Dimoulas is currently teaching a “History of Programming Languages” class at Harvard. The class is, as Christos writes, “definitely not about this”; instead, each meeting is a deep examination of a single, mature research topic, in terms of three to five key papers from the literature.

On Monday, I presented “the History of Actors” for the class. I’ve made the written-out talk notes and an annotated bibliography available here.