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Jayadev Misra is a professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. His primary research interests are in the area of distributed computing: specification and design of networks of asynchronous components. He believes that sound practical techniques must be based on elegant theories.
Mani Chandy is a professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He is chairman of the Computer Sciences Department. His research interests are in distributed systems and performance analysis.
This work was supported in part by a grant from the Office of Naval Research under N00014-85-K-0057
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Chandy, K.M., Misra, J. How processes learn. Distrib Comput 1, 40–52 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01843569
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