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Leslie Lamport
Leslie Barry Lamport 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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science · American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1941) · mathematician · computer scientist · programmer · engineer · writer · also Leslie Lamport, Leslie B. Lamport, Leslie Barry Lamport, Lamport
Born 7 February 1941 · Q92613
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2019· 1 entry
Brandeis University: Leslie Lamport, MA’63, PhD’72
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2014· 2 entries
Awarded Dijkstra Prize (2014).
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Awarded ACM Fellow (2014).
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded Turing Award (2013).
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2011· 1 entry
Was elected to the National Academy of Sciences
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2008· 2 entries
Won IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2008).
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Received the IEEE John von Neumann Medal
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2007· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate presented by Henri Poincaré University (2007).
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2005· 2 entries
Awarded Dijkstra Prize (2005).
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The paper "Reaching Agreement in the Presence of Faults" received the Dijkstra Prize
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2004· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (2004).
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Awarded IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (2004).
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2003· 3 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Rennes I (2003).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Christian Albrechts University of Kiel (2003).
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École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2004, University of Lugano in 2006, and Nancy-Université in 2007
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2001· 1 entry
Joined Microsoft Research in California, and he retired in January 2025
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2000· 2 entries
Awarded Dijkstra Prize (2000).
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"How to Make a Multiprocessor Computer That Correctly Executes Multiprocess Programs", which defined the notion of sequential consistency,
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1991· 1 entry
For contributions to the theoretical foundations of concurrent and fault-tolerant computing
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1987· 1 entry
“Email of 28 May 1987 https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/distributed-system.txt”
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1986· 1 entry
Which purportedly sold "more than a few hundred thousands" copies, and on August 21, 1989, at a TeX User Group meeting at Stanford, Lamport would agree to turn over the maintenance and development of LaTeX to Frank Mitte
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1983· 1 entry
By Peter Gordon, an Addison-Wesley editor, who proposed that Lamport turn its user manual into a book
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1981· 2 entries
“With so many people doing so much writing, great writing is hard to find ... If you succeed in attaining a position that allows you to do something great, if you do something that really is great, and if you realize that it’s great, there’s still one more hurdle: You have to convince others that it’s great. This will require writing.”
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“I think in other things that I've done, I can look back and see: "This idea developed from something else." Sometimes it would lead back to a previous idea of mine, very often it would lead to something somebody else had done. But the Bakery algorithm just seemed to come out of thin air to me. There was nothing like it that preceded it, so perhaps that's why I'm proudest of it.”
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1941· 1 entry
Born 1941-02-07.
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