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Leslie Lamport

Also Known As Leslie B. Lamport · Leslie Barry Lamport
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Leslie Barry Lamport is an American computer scientist and mathematician best known for his seminal work in distributed systems and as the initial developer of the LaTeX document preparation system, writing its first manual. He won the 2013 Turing Award for imposing clear, well-defined coherence on the seemingly chaotic behavior of distributed computing systems, devising algorithms and formal modeling and verification protocols that improved the correctness, performance and reliability of real distributed systems. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Birth Year
1941 1
Birth Date
1941-02-07 2
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Vector Clocks, Concepts

Vector clocks, introduced by Colin Fidge and Friedemann Mattern, directly generalize the logical clock concept Leslie Lamport introduced in his 1978 paper on ordering events in distributed systems.

Invented By

Byzantine Fault Tolerance, Concepts

Leslie Lamport co-authored the 1982 paper (with Robert Shostak and Marshall Pease) that formulated the Byzantine Generals Problem and named Byzantine fault tolerance.

Consensus Problem, Concepts

Leslie Lamport's Byzantine Generals and Paxos work formulated the distributed consensus problem in its modern form.

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1. Leslie Lamport (Wikidata)
  • Wikidata alias: Leslie B. Lamport
    Leslie B. Lamport
  • Wikidata P166: honorary doctorate
    Wikidata P166 (award received): honorary doctorate.
  • Wikidata P166: Dijkstra Prize
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Dijkstra Prize.
  • Wikidata P166: honorary doctorate of the Henri Poincaré University
    Wikidata P166 (award received): honorary doctorate of the Henri Poincaré University.
  • Wikidata P166: Turing Award
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Turing Award.
  • Wikidata P166: ACM Fellow
    Wikidata P166 (award received): ACM Fellow.
  • Wikidata P166: honorary doctor of the University of Rennes I
    Wikidata P166 (award received): honorary doctor of the University of Rennes I.
  • Wikidata P166: IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award
    Wikidata P166 (award received): IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award.
  • Wikidata P166: honorary doctor of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
    Wikidata P166 (award received): honorary doctor of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne.
  • Wikidata P166: IEEE John von Neumann Medal
    Wikidata P166 (award received): IEEE John von Neumann Medal.
  • Wikidata P166: honorary doctor of the Christian Albrechts University of Kiel
    Wikidata P166 (award received): honorary doctor of the Christian Albrechts University of Kiel.
  • Wikidata alias: Leslie Barry Lamport
    Leslie Barry Lamport
  • P569 (date of birth): year 1941
    1941
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2. Wikipedia: Leslie Lamport
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born February 7, 1941
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