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Leslie Lamport

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Computing Atlas. "Leslie Lamport." Accessed September 1, 2026. https://dev-computing.interactiveatlas.org/pioneers/leslie-lamport.

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Computing Atlas. (n.d.). Leslie Lamport. Retrieved September 1, 2026, from https://dev-computing.interactiveatlas.org/pioneers/leslie-lamport

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@misc{computingatlas-leslie-lamport,
  author = {Computing Atlas},
  title = {Leslie Lamport},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-computing.interactiveatlas.org/pioneers/leslie-lamport},
  note = {Accessed September 1, 2026}
}

Leslie Barry Lamport is an American computer scientist and mathematician best known for his seminal work in distributed systems and as the initial developer of the LaTeX document preparation system, writing its first manual. He won the 2013 Turing Award for imposing clear, well-defined coherence on the seemingly chaotic behavior of distributed computing systems, devising algorithms and formal modeling and verification protocols that improved the correctness, performance and reliability of real distributed systems.

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1941-02-07 1

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Also in Science Atlas: Turing Award, discussed there.

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1. Wikipedia: Leslie Lamport

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born February 7, 1941

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