Let's make this birthday one to remember.

71 years old (Born on November 10, 1953)

Happy Birthday, Charles! May your celebrations run smoothly in parallel, without any race conditions or deadlocks. Your groundbreaking contributions to parallel and distributed computing continue to inspire us all—proving once again that the best things in life scale efficiently.

From founding Cilk Arts and revolutionizing how we think about concurrency, you've consistently shown us that innovation is best executed concurrently with humor and humility. Here's hoping your birthday cake slices distribute evenly among guests without contention. Wishing you another year filled with successful computations, minimal latency, and maximum throughput of joy!

Cheers to you—our favorite parallel-processing pioneer!