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Leslie Lamport

1941 - Today

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Leslie B. Lamport (born February 7, 1941) is an American computer scientist and mathematician. 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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leslie Lamport is the 55th most popular computer scientist (down from 51st in 2019), the 3,617th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,312th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular American Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Leslie Lamport ranks 55 out of 245. Before him are Juris Hartmanis, Paul Graham, Joseph Weizenbaum, Bruce Perens, Allen Newell, and Leonard Kleinrock. After him are Alan Perlis, Pierre Bézier, James Gosling, Amir Pnueli, Yann LeCun, and Brian Kernighan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Leslie Lamport ranks 212. Before him are İdil Biret, Mariangela Melato, Gabriel Zubeir Wako, Reine Wisell, Fred West, and Yoshiyuki Tomino. After him are Carla Gravina, Bruce Nauman, Josep Maria Mauri, David Crystal, Vladimir Lyakhov, and Lothar Emmerich.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Leslie Lamport ranks 3,617 out of 20,380. Before him are Kirk Kerkorian (1917), Maila Nurmi (1922), Joyce Meyer (1943), William Thurston (1946), Hailey Baldwin (1996), and Jack Williamson (1908). After him are George Kelly (1905), Melissa McCarthy (1970), Van Cliburn (1934), Larry Miller (1953), Hélène de Pourtalès (1868), and Frank Grillo (1965).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Leslie Lamport ranks 33. Before him are Kevin Mitnick (1963), David Patterson (1947), Thomas E. Kurtz (1928), Mary Kenneth Keller (1913), Allen Newell (1927), and Leonard Kleinrock (1934). After him are Alan Perlis (1922), J. C. R. Licklider (1915), Vernor Vinge (1944), Ron Rivest (1947), Jean Bartik (1924), and Ruth Teitelbaum (1924).

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