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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Leslie_LamportLeslie Lamport - Wikipedia

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   Leslie B. Lamport (born February 7, 1941) is an American computer scientist and mathematician. Lamport is best known for his seminal work in distributed systems, and as the initial developer of the document preparation system LaTeX and the author of its first manual.

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2. www.britannica.com › biography › Leslie-LamportLeslie Lamport | Turing Award, Biography, & Facts | Britannica

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   May 9, 2017 · Leslie Lamport (born February 7, 1941, New York, New York) is an American computer scientist who was awarded the 2013 Turing Award for explaining and formulating the behaviour of distributed computing systems (i.e., systems made up of multiple autonomous computers that communicate by exchanging messages with one another).

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   Who is Leslie Lamport?

   • Leslie Lamport (born February 7, 1941, New York, New York) American computer scientist who was awarded the 2013 Turing Award for explaining and formulating the behaviour of distributed computing systems (i.e., systems made up of multiple autonomous computers that communicate by exchanging messages with one another).

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   How has Leslie Lamport changed the world?

   • Leslie Lamport has had a huge impact on the way we think about distributed system, as well as on the engineering practices of the field. Logical clocks: Many people realized that a global notion of time is not natural for a distributed system.

   Leslie Lamport - A.M. Turing Award Laureate

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   What are Lamport's contributions to computer science?

   • Lamport’s papers on logical correctness, concurrency, and multiprocessor computing are some of the most frequently cited articles in all of computer science, essentially laying the foundations for the theory of distributed systems.

   Leslie Lamport - CHM

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4. www.microsoft.com › en-us › researchLeslie Lamport at Microsoft Research

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   Lamport is best known for his seminal work in distributed systems and as the initial developer of the document preparation system LaTeX. Leslie Lamport was the winner of the 2013 Turing Award for imposing clear, well-defined coherence on the seemingly chaotic behavior of distributed computing systems, in which several autonomous computers ...

5. amturing.acm.org › award_winners › lamport_1205376Leslie Lamport - A.M. Turing Award Laureate

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   Leslie Lamport. United States – 2013. CITATION. For fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of distributed and concurrent systems, notably the invention of concepts such as causality and logical clocks, safety and liveness, replicated state machines, and sequential consistency. Short Annotated. Bibliography. ACM Turing Award.

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7. computerhistory.org › profile › leslie-lamportLeslie Lamport - CHM

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   May 2, 2024 · Leslie Lamport was born in New York City in 1941. Over a career spanning five decades, Lamport has made multiple groundbreaking contributions to the theory and practice of distributed and concurrent computing systems, insights that have dramatically improved the performance and reliability of such systems.

8. simple.wikipedia.org › wiki › Leslie_LamportLeslie Lamport - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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   Leslie Lamport is a computer scientist and mathematician. He was born on the 7th of Febuary 1941. He is well known for being the creator of LaTeX, a document formatter along with writing the manual for the formatter. [1]