Talk:Leslie Lamport

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I'm pretty sure that Dr Lamport would like his scientific achievements cited before his work on a package of text processing macros! David.Monniaux 21:13, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)

This page reads a bit too much like a personal webpage. It needs re-writing so that it reads more like an entry written by someone else about the subject. Dalziel 86 09:53, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

A bit better now? 195.176.176.226 08:12, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

I am not sure why the article is not formal enough. It looks formal to me. Dalziel 86, can you be more specific? 24.224.160.130 19:01, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

This page should also include this paper of Dr. Lamport: How to Make a Multiprocessor Computer That Correctly Executes Multiprocess Programs (IEEE Transactions on Computers C-28, 9 (September 1979) 690-691.), which presented the fundamental idea of "Sequential Consistency". It's the basis for all the work related to Memory Model of multiprocessors.

[edit] Category:Jewish businesspeople

Is there a source to substantiate that this applies here? —xyzzy_n 20:56, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Claim to Fame

The first paragraph states that he is best known for developing LaTeX, and there is a citation that basically confirms that he is the original developer of LaTeX. However, is that really what he is "best" known for? I first heard about him due to his work in distributed systems, and the rest of the article supports the claim that he is well known in that field. I changed the article to reflect that. Urlass 17:30, 8 October 2007 (UTC)