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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. [2]
May 9, 2017 · bakery algorithm. 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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in Mountain View, California, where I will be interviewing Leslie Lamport for the ACM’s Turing Award winners project. This is a continuation of an interview that we began on August 12th of this year. Morning, Leslie. Lamport: Good morning. Levin: What I’d like to do is pick up the theme that we began in the last interview. We were talking about
Aug 19, 2014 · Leslie Lamport ’60. Turing winner loves to solve practical problems. By. Joe McGonegal. August 19, 2014. The first computer that Leslie Lamport encountered in his first year at MIT was an IBM ...
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Apr 29, 2024 · Leslie Lamport. Last modified 29 April 2024. This document is a sort of scientific autobiography. It not only lists the papers I have written, but also describes them and explains how I came to write some of them. I have included almost all my technical papers and electronic versions of many of them for downloading.
Mountain View, California, where I’ll be interviewing Leslie Lamport for the AMC’s Turing Award Winners project. Morning, Leslie. Lamport: Good morning. Levin: I want to start with the earliest time that you can remember being aware of computing. Lamport: Aware of computing. Probably in my junior year in high school.
Mar 18, 2014 · Turing Award winners Chuck Thacker (left) and Leslie Lamport convene for a chat recently. Note the rollerblades in the background. Lamport has a penchant for using them to commute to work. Lamport, 73, becomes the fifth scientist from Microsoft Research to have won the Turing Award, joining previous recipients Tony Hoare (1980), Lampson, Jim ...
