If I go in to my excellent academic article organizer, Papers , and search for "software transaction memory" or "stm" I get at least 30 results of papers both high level and detailed regarding this next big thing that will allow us to finally, without any effort, take advantage of our multi-core CPUs and handle all the nasty locking and synchronization issues for us with nothing more than a language keyword. So much publicity has been given to this idea that no less than three presenters at the Google...