Leslie Lamport, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Leslie Lamport

American computer scientist

Date of Birth: 07-Feb-1941

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Profession: writer, engineer, computer scientist, mathematician, programmer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Leslie B.
Lamport (born February 7, 1941) is an American computer scientist.
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.
Leslie 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.
These contributions have resulted in improved correctness, performance, and reliability of computer systems.