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Leslie Lamport

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Leslie B. Lamport (born February 7, 1941) is an American computer scientist. 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. 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 communicate with each other by passing messages. He devised important algorithms and developed formal modeling and verification protocols that improve the quality of real distributed systems. These contributions have resulted in improved correctness, performance, and reliability of computer systems.

Leslie Lamport - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1941) Leslie Lamport Lamport in 2008 Born ( 1941-02-07 ) February 7, 1941 (age 85) New York City, U.S. Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( BS ) Brandeis University ( MA , PhD ) Known for LaTeX Hash chain ( S/KEY ) Sequential consistency Lamport's bakery algorithm Byzantine fault tolerance Paxos algorithm Lamport signature Temporal logic of actions TLA+ Awards Dijkstra Prize (2000, 2005, 2014) IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (2004) IEEE J

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