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Today, critical computer systems at Microsoft, Google and Amazon all depend on the Paxos algorithm, a series of mathematical instructions derived by Lamport, who currently works at Microsoft Research ...

This year’s winner of the Turing Award—often referred to as the Nobel Prize of computing—was announced today as Leslie Lamport, a computer scientist whose research made possible the development of the ...

Leslie Lamport, a Microsoft Research principal, has been named the winner of the 2013 ACM A.M. Turing Award, also known as the “Nobel Prize in Computing.” The computer scientist was recognized by the ...

Leslie Lamport, a principal researcher at Microsoft Research’s Silicon Valley lab in Mountain View, has been awarded the 2013 A.M. Turing Award, a prestigious technical award often referred to as the ...