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Butler Lampson
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American computer scientist (born 1943)
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Butler W. Lampson is an American computer scientist, engineer, and university teacher born in Washington, D.C., in 1943. He has worked at PARC, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Digital Equipment Corporation, and Microsoft. Lampson is educated at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley, and his doctoral advisor was Harry Huskey. He speaks English and works in the field of computer science.
He has received the Turing Award, IEEE John von Neumann Medal, Charles Stark Draper Prize, and Computer Pioneer Award. Lampson is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Association for Computing Machinery, and Royal Society. His notable works include Distributed Systems - Architecture and Implementation and Research in man-machine communications using time shared computer systems. His archives are held at the Computer History Museum.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1943
- Works
- 8
Top works
- Distributed Systems - Architecture and Implementation
- Annual Review of Computer Science, 1987
- Distributed systems--architecture and implementation
- Distributed systems--architecture and implementation
- Research in man-machine communications using time shared computer systems
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1943-12-23 ) December 23, 1943 (age 82) , Washington, D.C.
- Education
- Harvard University ( BA ), University of California, Berkeley ( MS , PhD )
- Known for
- SDS 940 , Xerox Alto
- Awards
- Turing Award (1992) ACM Fellow (1994) IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2001) Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2005) Draper Prize (2004) Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2018)
- Fields
- Computer science
- Institutions
- University of California, Berkeley , Xerox PARC , Digital Equipment Corporation , Microsoft , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Thesis
- Scheduling and Protection in an Interactive Multi-Processor System (1967)
- Doctoral advisor
- Harry Huskey
- Website
- research.microsoft.com/lampson (archived)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Washington, D.C.
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Harvard University
- Employer
- Microsoft
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Doctoral advisor
- Harry Huskey
- Field of work
- computer science
- Official website
- research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/blampson
- Image
- Butler Lampson Royal Society.jpg
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- Commons category
- Butler Lampson
- date of birth
- 1943-12-23
- Erdős number
- 6
- member of
- National Academy of Sciences
- archives at
- Computer History Museum
- name in native language
- Butler W. Lampson
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
Butler W. Lampson (born December 23, 1943) is an American computer scientist best known for his contributions to the development and implementation of distributed personal computing. He won the 1992 ACM Turing Award.
Education and early life
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