Languages and Tools for Lunch

A weekly seminar introducing programming languages and tools, started at the Rochester Institute of Technology, fall quarter 2003.

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Garbage Collection

Arthur Nunes-Harwitt
May 12, noon, 70-3000.

Garbage collection refers to a family of techniques for managing computer storage automatically. With the popularity of Java, garbage collection has gone from margin to center. And so it is more important than ever to have a sense of how garbage collectors work. This talk will provide an overview of fundamental garbage collection ideas.