Leslie Lamport Scientist

Leslie B. Lamport (born February 7, 1941 in New York City) 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. 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.

Personal facts

Birth date	February 07, 1941
Birth place	New York City , New York
Education	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Brandeis University
Known for	LaTeX Byzantine fault tolerance Lamport's bakery algorithm Paxos (computer science) Lamport signature Sequential consistency