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Leslie Lamport Wins the 2013 A.M. Turing Award

posted by LaminatorX on Wednesday March 19 2014, @11:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the distributed-accolades dept.

Rashek writes:

"Leslie Lamport, the famous distributed systems researcher best known for his paper The Byzantine Generals Problem [PDF] and as the the initial developer of LaTeX , has been granted the 2013 ACM A.M. Turing Award 'for imposing clear, well-defined coherence on the seemingly chaotic behavior of distributed computing systems.'"

 
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  • (Score: 1) by The_Charmer on Wednesday March 19 2014, @08:38PM

    by The_Charmer (3523) on Wednesday March 19 2014, @08:38PM (#18692)

    Was there not a recent study where if your product (or idea or point of view) created a "critical mass" of 10% it was theorized that it would then take over? It was on /. somewhere I think...

  • (Score: 1) by The_Charmer on Wednesday March 19 2014, @08:47PM

    by The_Charmer (3523) on Wednesday March 19 2014, @08:47PM (#18694)

    And the title read: "Scientists Discover Tipping Point for the Spread of Ideas"...