Leslie Lamport
✓ Source-basedrisingAmerican computer scientist
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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A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.
Email of 28 May 1987 https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/distributed-system.txt
The first thing is deciding what the program should do.
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With so many people doing so much writing, great writing is hard to find ...
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Edsger W. DijkstraAlso won Dijkstra Prize
Joachim GauckAlso won honorary doctor of the Christian Albrechts University of Kiel
Tony HoareAlso won IEEE John von Neumann Medal
Niklaus WirthAlso won IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award
Álvaro Siza VieiraAlso won honorary doctor of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Vint CerfAlso won Turing AwardAbout this person
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