Leslie lamport author visit amazons leslie lamport page. Leslie lamport, turing award winner and world renowned computer scientist, has profoundly influenced many large scale distributed systems. I am happy to receive email from people, but not from spammers. Lamport is a village and civil parish in the daventry district of the county of northamptonshire, england.
Lamport born february 7, 1941 is an american computer scientist. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes. Lamport created the users manual for latex as well as various versions in the 80s before turning over maintenance and development to. For example, algorithms are usually best described in terms of mathematical objects like sets and graphs instead of the primitive objects like bytes and integers provided by programming languages. The first seven chapters 83 pages are a rewritten version of. The native file format used by jabref is bibtex, the standard latex bibliography format. The first equation in the first paragraph on this page is encoded in latex as follows. Latex document system guide a getting started tutorial.
Leslie lamport microsoft research received the 20 turing award, a prestigious honor which is seen by many as the nobel prize of computer sciencefor more information, see. Leslie lamport created latex in the early 80s as a way to use the original tex macros created by donald e. Leslie lamport was the winner of the 20 turing award for imposing clear, welldefined coherence on the seemingly chaotic behavior of distributed. Large scale verification of mpi programs using lamport clocks with lazy update. View a video by microsoft research on leslie lamports work and read his 1978 paper, time, clocks, and the ordering of events in a distributed system, one of the most cited in the history of computer science in a second video, in his own voice for the june 2014 issue of communications of the acm, lamport asserts that the best logic for stating things clearly is. Jul 15, 2014 architects draw detailed blueprints before a brick is laid or a nail is hammered. Microsoft new englands best blogs of 2014 mar 18, 2014 lauren metter microsoft researcher, mit and brandeis alum leslie lamport receives turing award. Large scale verification of mpi programs using lamport. Using time instead of timeout for faulttolerant distributed systems. Turing award, widely regarded as the nobel prize of computing. A blueprint for software is called a specification.
You can help protect yourself from scammers by verifying that the contact is a microsoft agent or microsoft employee and that the phone number is an official microsoft global customer service number. Microsofts globally distributed, multimodel database service a technical overview. Tech support scams are an industrywide issue where scammers trick you into paying for unnecessary technical support services. Word to latex and latex to word tools microsoft community. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. The village is on the a508, about 8 miles km south of market harborough and 8 miles km north of northampton. Pease solution for a group of 3m or fewer and use it to construct a threegeneral solution to the byzantine generals problem that works with one. After it was announced that leslie lamport had won the 20 a. Leslie lamport, now of microsoft research, soon introduced latex, a higherlevel language built atop knuths tex. Its an excellent page, with a long and growing list of lamport s publications, and. So, please do not put my email address on the web in plain. The eventual result was tex, a formatting language not just for equations but for entire documents. So, please do not put my email address on the web in plain text.
Leslie lamport won a turing award in 20 for his work in distributed and concurrent systems. He also designed the document preparation tool latex. Microsoft and inria strengthen their partnership to. Specifying systems by leslie lamport download link. Leslie lamport microsoft leslie lamport was born on 7 february 1941 in new york city. Leslie lamport for inspiring us and influencing our approach to designing distributed systems. The interview was conducted by a few email exchanges.
It includes an interesting quote from brannon battson. A discussion with leslie lamport microsoft research. A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didnt even know existed can render your own computer unusable. He has a lot of humor and wisdom which you can strongly feel it from his casual comments2 and the interview3. Jabref is an open source bibliography reference manager. Tripp ieee the purpose of this guide is to provide a consensually validated characterization of the bounds of the software engineering discipline and to provide a topical access to the body of knowledge supporting that discipline. Vertical paxos and primarybackup replication proceedings. Bibtex is an application and a bibliography file format written by oren patashnik and leslie lamport for the latex document. We are very grateful to our customers who have relied on cosmos db to build their missioncritical apps, pushed the limits of. Leslie lamport, the creator of the latex typesetting system, shows how to write unambiguous specifications of complex computer systems. Which means that without leslie lamports monumental work on the theory of distributed computingthe internet might not have evolved as it has today. February 7, 1941, in new york city, new york, usa computerrelated contributions. He volunteered to send me the questions in advance, and to send me the transcript afterwards for correction.
Today, leslie lamport, principal researcher at microsoft research in silicon valley, was awarded the a. Its an excellent page, with a long and growing list of lamports publications, and witty comments by the author on each one. Leslie lamport receives turing award microsoft research. Leslie lamport was the winner of the 20 turing award for imposing clear, welldefined coherence on the. Pease solution for a group of 3m or fewer and use it to construct a threegeneral solution to the byzantine generals problem that works with one traitor, which we know. A graduate of the bronx high school of science, he received a b. Leslie lamport got his bs, ms and phd degrees on mathematics which i think is an advantage for him when he works as a computer scientist because he can write structured proofs easily. A conversation with turing award winner leslie lamport microsoft. Microsoft researcher, mit and brandeis alum leslie lamport. Lamport taught mathematics at marlboro college from 1965 to 1969. He has a lot of humor and wisdom which you can strongly. We are very grateful to our customers who have relied on cosmos db to build their missioncritical apps, pushed the limits of the service and always demanded the best.
But his contributions to microsoft are not merely measured in bytes, a fact to which david langworthy can attest. The guide to the software engineering body of knowledge by p. The path to greatness begins with baby steps, and for lamport, a principal researcher with microsoft research, that teenage curiosity has yet to. This seemed pretty silly, so i just wrote my answers. Leslie taught me how to think, says langworthy, a principal development lead for microsoft. Research reveals the couples who discuss their finances and work with a budget are far less likely to fight over finances. When using lamport, im reminded of kernighan and ritchie the c programming language lamport has a similar kind of easy flow to the text. Architects draw detailed blueprints before a brick is laid or a nail is hammered. Microsoft research compaq digital equipment corporation sri international thesis the analytic cauchy problem with singular data 1972. They were expressed in pseudocode and with minor adjustments as a tla spec.
The service is designed to allow customers to elastically and independently scale throughput and storage across any number of geographical regions. Microsoft research and inria renew their research partnership. In the spring of 2002, dejan milojicic proposed interviewing me for an ieee online publication. Email message sent to a dec src bulletin board at 12. Lamport is best known for his seminal work in distributed systems and as the initial deve. Azure cosmos db is microsofts globally distributed, horizontally partitioned, multimodel database service. View a video by microsoft research on leslie lamport s work and read his 1978 paper, time, clocks, and the ordering of events in a distributed system, one of the most cited in the history of computer science. American computer scientist best known for his seminal work in distributed systems and as the initial developer of the document preparation system latex his research contributions laid the foundations of the theory of distributed systems and his papers on the. This message is the source of the following observation, which has been quoted and misquoted rather widely.
Lamport is also known for creating the latex typesetting system and the bestselling book, latex, second edition, which documents it addisonwesley, 1994. Discovering dependencies for network management paramvir bahl, paul barham, richard black, ranveer chandra, moises goldszmidt, rebecca isaacs, srikanth kandula, lun li, john maccormick, david a. Acm transactions on programming languages and systems, 62. Turing award, the link to his list of publications found popularity on most of the techrelated sites i visit. Join facebook to connect with leslie lamport and others you may know. Mar 18, 2014 and many at microsoft have benefited from the latex documentpreparation system, created by lamport. Over the course of the seven years building azure cosmos db, leslies work has been a constant source of our inspiration for us. Omitted are papers for which i no longer have copies and papers that are incomplete. Lamport is best known for his seminal work in distributed systems and as the initial developer of the document. Nothing too unusual about thatuntil you consider that this was in the mid1950s.
Vimeo gives control freaks the power to tweak every aspect of their embedded videos. That and the chapter on the tlc model checker are about as much of the book as i expect people. Mar 18, 2014 today, leslie lamport, principal researcher at microsoft research in silicon valley, was awarded the a. Lamport is best known for his seminal work in distributed systems and as the initial developer of the document preparation system latex. Lamport was attending the bronx high school of science in new york, and he and a friend used to scrounge around, looking for discarded vacuum tubes to build a digital circuit.
The first part provides a concise and lucid introduction to specification, explaining how to describe, with mathematical precision, the behavioral properties of a systemwhat that system is allowed to do. This document contains descriptions of almost all my technical papers and electronic versions of many of them for downloading. Larry larsen from channel 9 recently sat down with leslie lamport, principal researcher at microsoft research and 20 turing award winner, to. Many kinds of computing devices have been described, some abstract and some very concrete. Bibtex is an application and a bibliography file format written by oren patashnik and leslie lamport for the latex document preparation system. While the material is not easy, lamport s book does a good job of conveying use of a highly technical piece of software in a readable fashion. Microsoft corporation 1020 enterprise way sunnyvale, ca 94089 u. Algorithms are different from programs and should not be described with programming languages. Leslie lamport was the winner of the 20 turing award for imposing clear, welldefined coherence on the seemingly chaotic. American computer scientist best known for his seminal work in distributed systems and as the initial developer of the document preparation system latex. A technical overview of azure cosmos db azure blog and. The association for computing machinery acm named lamport the 20 winner in recognition of his invaluable advances in computer science. Leslie lamport inventor of paxos and developer of latex introduces techniques and tools that help programmers think above the code level to determine what applications and services should do and. This episode is a republication from my interview with leslie lamport on software engineering radio.
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