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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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 …

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 …

Oct 21, 2025 · Over a career spanning five decades, Lamport has made multiple groundbreaking contributions to the theory and practice of distributed and concurrent computing systems, insights …

His paper on "Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System" has become the most cited of Lamport’s works, and in computer science parlance logical clocks are often nicknamed …

Leslie Lamport is a research scientist for Microsoft Corporation. He won the 2013 Turing Award, considered the "Nobel Prize of computer science." He is also the author of the LaTeX document. …

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 …

Notable computer scientist Leslie Lamport is best known for his influential work in distributed computing systems. Lamport is also the initial developer of the document preparation system LaTeX.

Lamport's LaTeX overlay on Knuth's TeX is the standard tool for typesetting scientific papers. Originated key concepts of distributed computing: logical time and timestamps, replicated state machines, …