Leslie Lamport
American computer scientist and mathematician / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Leslie B. Lamport (born February 7, 1941 in Brooklyn) 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]
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| Born | (1941-02-07) February 7, 1941 (age 82) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
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| Fields | Computer science |
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| Thesis | The analytic Cauchy problem with singular data (1972) |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard Palais[1] |
| Website | lamport |
Lamport was the winner of the 2013 Turing Award[3] 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.[4][5][6][7][8]