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Friday, June 06, 2014

ACM Fellow Leslie Lamport

Have followed the ACM for years.  I try to read some of the the work of each Turing Award Recipient.

Welcome to the Digital Edition of the June 2014 Communications of the ACM.  ...   For the Digital issue click here.

ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient Leslie Lamport's work and accomplishments are featured in this month's issue. Cited for his fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of distributed and concurrent systems, Lamport's impact is explored in "General Agreement" by Neil Savage, discussed in "Divide and Conquer," a Q&A by Leah Hoffman, and displayed in an original video on the CACM website at cacm.acm.org. Together, they suggest the importance and scope of Lamport's contributions. ... " 

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