Leslie Lamport
Leslie Barry Lamport 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.
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Leslie Barry Lamport 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.
Top Publications
- Time, clocks, and the ordering of events in a distributed system (1978) - 8,515 citations
- The Byzantine Generals Problem (1982) - 6,082 citations
- Password authentication with insecure communication (1981) - 2,803 citations
- The part-time parliament (1998) - 2,748 citations
- Distributed snapshots (1985) - 2,450 citations
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- Full name
- Leslie Lamport
- ORCID
- 0000-0002-9756-1327
- OpenAlex ID
- https://openalex.org/A5040623453
Research interests
- Logic, programming, and type systems, Formal Methods in Verification, Distributed systems and fault tolerance, Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques, Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge
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Most-cited linked publications
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- Time, clocks, and the ordering of events in a distributed system ↗1978 · Communications of the ACM8,515OpenAlex citations
- The Byzantine Generals Problem ↗1982 · ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems6,082OpenAlex citations
- Password authentication with insecure communication ↗1981 · Communications of the ACM2,803OpenAlex citations
- The part-time parliament ↗1998 · ACM Transactions on Computer Systems2,748OpenAlex citations
- Distributed snapshots ↗1985 · ACM Transactions on Computer Systems2,450OpenAlex citations
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- Time, clocks, and the ordering of events in a distributed system ↗1978 · Communications of the ACM
- The Byzantine Generals Problem ↗1982 · ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems
- Password authentication with insecure communication ↗1981 · Communications of the ACM
- The part-time parliament ↗1998 · ACM Transactions on Computer Systems
- Distributed snapshots ↗1985 · ACM Transactions on Computer Systems
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