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It's quite ironic that most of the world knows him for LaTeX and not for the zillion fundamental contributions he has made to Distributed Systems. Truly well deserved. #Respect
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/p...
Is there a list of Turing Award nominees published somewhere?
It's quite ironic that most of the world knows him for LaTeX and not for the zillion fundamental contributions he has made to Distributed Systems. Truly well deserved. #Respect
I'm embarrassed to include myself among the ignorant masses--I just assumed this was for his work on LaTeX. The distributed systems stuff sounds much more interesting though. Looks like I have some reading to do! http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/p...
It's also fairly accessible. One of the first systems papers I read, and while I certainly felt in over my head, I got the high level ideas
Congratulations to Dr Lamport. Is there a list of Turing Award nominees published somewhere?
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I'm embarrassed to include myself among the ignorant masses--I just assumed this was for his work on LaTeX. The distributed systems stuff sounds much more interesting though. Looks like I have some reading to do! http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/p...
Yep. Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System is cited in basically every distributed systems paper ever, and the ideas in it are behind, among other things, Amazon's Dynamo. It's also fairly accessible. One of the first systems papers I read, and while I certainly felt in over my head, I got the high level ideas
Congrats and well deserved.
Finally!
While his work on distributed computing was certainly great, I find it curious that the press release doesn't even mention the achievement of Lamport that probably was important to lot more people: The creation of LaTeX. Sure, its not something typically honored by the Turing Award but leaving it out entirely? Come on!