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This lecture introduces the concepts of parallel programming, focusing on the benefits of executing multiple parts of a program simultaneously to improve performance. It covers topics such as exploiting parallelism in algorithms, using parallel programming primitives, and designing efficient parallel collections. The importance of avoiding race conditions and the synchronization mechanisms to prevent them are also discussed, along with an overview of concurrency on the Java Virtual Machine using threads.