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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May 15, 2025 · It not only lists the papers I have written, but also describes them and explains how I came to write some of them. I have included almost all my technical papers and electronic versions …

Leslie Lamport, American computer scientist who received the 2013 Turing Award for his work explaining and formulating the behavior of distributed computing systems (i.e., systems made up of …

For fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of distributed and concurrent systems, notably the invention of concepts such as causality and logical clocks, safety and liveness, replicated state …

Oct 17, 2025 · Lamport’s papers on logical correctness, concurrency, and multiprocessor computing are some of the most frequently cited articles in all of computer science, essentially laying the …

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In 2013, Lamport received the A.M. Turing Award, computer science’s Nobel Prize. Now a distinguished scientist at Microsoft Research Lab, Lamport says he is especially grateful to Brandeis’ math …

Nov 3, 2025 · Originated key concepts of distributed computing: logical time and timestamps, replicated state machines, atomic objects, sequential consistency, wait-freedom, safety and liveness, and …

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.