A model of concurrent computation in which independent units called actors communicate only by sending asynchronous messages to each other, each actor processing one message at a time and never sharing mutable state directly with another actor.
Facts
Core PrincipleAn actor is the basic building block of concurrent computation. 1 Connections
In Field
Invented
Carl Hewitt introduced the actor model of concurrent computation in a 1973 paper with Peter Bishop and Richard Steiger.
Sources
1. Actor model - Wikipedia
Section: History
Following Hewitt, Bishop, and Steiger's 1973 publication
Lead paragraph
is a mathematical model of concurrent computation that treats an actor as the basic building block of concurrent computation.
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