Leslie Lamport facts for kids

Leslie Lamport
Quick facts for kids Leslie Lamport
Born	Leslie B. Lamport ; February 7, 1941 (age 80); New York City, New York
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BSc); Brandeis University (PhD);
Known for	LaTeX; Sequential consistency; Atomic Register Hierarchy; Lamport's bakery algorithm; Byzantine fault tolerance; Paxos algorithm; Lamport signature;
Awards	Dijkstra Prize (2000, 2005, and 2014); IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (2004); IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2008); Turing Award (2013); Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2011); ACM Fellow (2014);
	Scientific career
Fields	Computer science
Institutions	Microsoft Research; Compaq; Digital Equipment Corporation; SRI International;
Thesis	The analytic Cauchy problem with singular data (1972)
Doctoral advisor	Richard Palais

Leslie B. Lamport (born February 7, 1941) is an American computer scientist. 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. Leslie Lamport was the winner of the 2013 Turing Award 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.