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Leslie Lamport

A prominent computer scientist and one of the founding figures in distributed systems research. He is the inventor of the Paxos consensus algorithm and the LaTeX typesetting system, and is a recipient of the Turing Award.

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Oct 8

TLA+ was designed by Leslie Lamport and is widely used for distributed systems verification.

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Sep 23

TLA+ is a specification language designed by Turing Award laureate Leslie Lamport, widely used for verifying protocols and state machines in distributed systems.

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Sep 15

Paxos is a consensus algorithm proposed by Leslie Lamport.

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Sep 15

Lamport's paper "Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System" proposed the happens-before relationship.

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Aug 30

Leslie Lamport's Paxos algorithm was proposed in 1989 and published in 1998, and Diego Ongaro's Raft algorithm was proposed in 2014, providing solutions to the distributed consensus problem.

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Aug 4

The original Paxos paper was written as an allegory about a Greek parliament

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Aug 4

Paxos was proposed by Leslie Lamport in 1989 and was the first consensus algorithm to be rigorously proven correct

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