Leslie Lamport, of LaTeX fame, is a very accomplished mathematician and computer scientist with a Turing award for his work on “fundamental contributions to the theory and
practice of distributed and concurrent systems”. He just published a draft of his new book:
True to his pedagogic approach to everything he does, "The book assumes only that you know the math one learns before entering a university." Even the appendices are fantastic. Can only wish I'll remain this lucid at his 82 years old.
@albertcardona@adrianco hah. “Of LaTeX fame” made me laugh, because I first think “lamport clocks”. Too long in distributed systems, not enough academia.
@webframp@albertcardona Paul Borrill and I did a Papers we Love talk in SF once where Paul got Leslie to sit in the audience unannounced while he talked about clocks and time. After the talk he pointed out Leslie “and there was much fanboying…” he signed a bunch of stuff that night.
Most of us apply concurrency ideas without a second thought: they are part of standard libraries or of what everyone knows. Like a senior neuroscientist once told me, success is when you are no longer cited but everyone builds upon your work.
@albertcardona nearly the most underrated computer scientist of the century. The Byzantine Generals work, and special relativity based time in programs, are like things dropped from the future.
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