Leslie Lamport
Leslie Lamport · Technology & Engineering
Foundational work on distributed systems; Turing Award laureate.
1941, New York City, United States
United States (Brandeis · SRI · DEC/Compaq · Microsoft Research)
Leslie Lamport is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Foundational work on distributed systems; Turing Award laureate.
Lamport, from a New York Jewish family, laid the theoretical foundations of distributed computing: logical clocks and the ordering of events, the Byzantine generals problem, and the Paxos consensus protocol that underpins reliable data centers. He also created LaTeX, the document system used across science. He received the 2013 Turing Award.
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Foundational work on distributed systems; Turing Award laureate.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science
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