Butler lampson was born in washington dc and educated at the lawrenceville school, an elite. Hints for computer system design microsoft research. The papers and other items are listed in chronological order of publication. While i may perhaps be pushing the fairuse envelope, until acm gets the paper online, i expect they will be tolerant. Shortly before taylors retirement, lampson left to work for microsoft research as an architect 19951999, distinguished engineer 20002005 and technical fellow 2005present.
Hints for computer system design july 1983 1 hints for computer system design1 butler w. Studying the design and implementation of a number of computer has led to some general hints for system design. Today there are sensor networks like the inrix traffic information system, robots like. This morning, i took the rough notes included here. Each one that is available online has at least an abstract and acrobat and postscript files. Turing award winning computer scientist butler lampson briefly discusses his education and work. In 1999, butler lampson gave a talk about the past and future of computer systems research. Butler helped me as christian borgs and i were setting up the lab, she said.
Ousterhout, measurements of a distributed file system, proceedings of the thirteenth acm. Hints for computer system design butler lampson, 1983 if theres been an unifying theme for the morning paper posts over the last couple of weeks, its probably this. Lazy and speculative execution in computer systems. Butler lampson microsoft, washington microsoft research new. Bravo eventually led to the development of microsoft word. This page contains some excerpts from butler lampsons hints for computer system design. So it seems fitting to end this run of papers with butler lampsons hints. Lamport showed that a replicated deterministic state machine is a general way to implement a highly available system, given a consensus algorithm that the replicas can use to agree on each input. Around 1950 they began to model events in the world simulation, and around 1980 to connect people communication.
Since 2010 they have begun to engage with the physical world in a nontrivial way embodimentgiving them bodies. My theory about this thing is that you should not try and talk short. Mit professor made much of our world possible mit news. Downloadable bluetooth for computer free downloads 2000 shareware periodically updates software information and pricing of downloadable bluetooth for computer from the publisher, so some information may be slightly outofdate. Jim is a great friend of computing and a friend of this academy. View butler lampsons profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. Lampson, formemrs, born december 23, 1943 is an american computer scientist. It had a drum memory with 2000 words of ten decimal digits, and the only io aside from. He suggested we have a flat structure, which is unusual for a lab of our size. By continuing to browse this site, you agree to this use. Butler lampson microsoft story labs microsoft news. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the.
Lampson computer science laboratory xerox palo alto research center palo alto, ca 94304 abstract studying the design and implementation of a number of computer has led to some general hints for system design. Foi um dos pioneiros da computacao, participando principalmente no desenvolvimento do computador pessoal. View colleagues of butler lampson timothy mann homepage. Nickolai zeldovich, mit csail available media writing concurrent systems software is errorprone, because multiple processes or threads can interleave in many ways, and it is easy to forget about a subtle corner case. Ousterhout, measurements of a distributed file system. Many of them also appear as web pages and as microsoft word documents. Butler lampson microsoft, washington microsoft research. Face lite for computer free downloads 2000 shareware periodically updates software information and pricing of face lite for computer from the publisher, so some information may be slightly outofdate.
Online data compression in a logstructured file system. I was going to say, i thought the job was to record hours of brilliant conversation that historians in 2100 will pore over. Butler lampson was born in washington dc and educated at the lawrenceville school, an elite boarding school 6 miles from princeton new jersey butlers first computer was an underutilized ibm 650 at princeton, which an enterprising high school classmate found and got permission to use while it was idle. Turing award, the highest honour in computer science, for contributions to the development of distributed, personal computing environments and the technology for their implementation. Microsofts driver verification tool has probably had more impact than all formal chip design tools combined, clang now has a fair amount of static analysis built in, and so on and so forth. Sep 17, 2009 butler s impact on gener this is a very special episode of expert to expert. Butler lampson microsoft corporation susan landau worcester polytechnic institute john mccanny queens university belfast angela sasse university college london fred schneider cornell university the forum, brought together approximately 60 participants from academia, government, industry, philanthropy, and nongovernmental. His paxos algorithm is the most faulttolerant way to get consensus without realtime guarantees. Excerpts from butler lampsons hints for computer system. This site uses cookies for analytics, personalized content and ads.
He was on the faculty at berkeley and then at the computer science laboratory at xerox parc and at digitals systems research center. How to build a highly available system using consensus. We were very fortunate to get some time with renowned computer scientist and microsoft technical fellow butler lampson. It was a shock to realize that the 7600 could do a floatingpoint multiply for every dot that i could display. See the complete profile on linkedin and discover butlers.
Hints for computer system design the morning paper. In the mean time, please use server dagstuhl instead. Jun 21, 2001 butler lampson may be the best person to ask when it comes to comparing microsoft research and other research labs. Proceedings of the 30th international conference on international conference on machine learning volume 28 article.
Butler lampson, a senior scientist at microsoft research and an adjunct professor at mit. They are described here and illustrated by many examples, ranging from hardware such as the alto and the dorado to application programs such as bravo and star. Computer scientist known for sds 940 and xerox alto, now considered to be the first personal computer. Butler lampson is a distinguished engineer at microsoft corporation and an adjunct professor of computer science and electrical engineering at mit. I visited livermore in 1971 and they showed me a 7600. Safe and secure autonomous systems linkedin slideshare. In response to youcansolveanyproblemwithanotherlevelofindirection, and some other stuff, stevehowell said this. In 1995 lampson joined microsoft research, as recalled by jennifer chayes, now a technical fellow and managing director for the companys new england lab. Since 2010 they have begun to engage with the physical world in a nontrivial way embodiment giving them bodies. Established in 1990 to honor outstanding achievements. If there were a jack of all trades at microsoft, technical fellow butler lampson would be at the top of the list of those deserving that title. Introduction the web is in constant fluxnew pages and web sites appear daily, and old pages and sites disappear almost as quickly. Berkeley, butler lampson went looking for the genie project, a team researching a better way to share a computer among multiple users. The distinction between lazy and eager or strict evaluation has been studied in programming languages since algol 60s call by name, as a way to avoid unnecessary work and to deal gracefully with infinite structures such as streams.
Butlers computer science and software engineering csse programs offer you a close working relationship with faculty, the rigorous curriculum and premier resources of a dedicated tech school, a broadbased liberal arts education, and a record of almost 100% job placement after graduation. Every 30 years there is a new wave of things that computers do. Since 1987, lampson has been an adjunct professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the massachusetts institute of technology. Butler lampson currently a senior engineer at the systems research center of digital equipment corporation in palo alto, california, butler lampson was an associate professor of computer science at the university of california, berkeley, a founder of the berkeley computer corporation, and a senior research fellow at xerox parcs computer science laboratory. I had just designed a character generator for a highresolution crt with 27 ns pixels, which i thought was pretty fast. Recently, i moderated a panel discussion at singapore management university with three recipients of the turing award the computer science equivalent of the nobel prize.
We were very fortunate to get some time with renowned computer scientist. One study estimates that about two percent of the web disappears from its current location every week. He has worked on computer architecture, computer vision. Microsoft researcher adam kalai described how lampson had counseled him on the design of a system that enables programmers to produce code simply by providing examples of inputs and outputs, while nickolai zeldovich, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at mit, explained how his work on enabling software. In 2009, erik meijer and butler lampson talked about this, and lampson s comment was that when they came up with threading, locks, and conditional variables at parc, they thought they were creating something that programmers could use to take advantage of parallelism, but that they now have decades of evidence that they were wrong. Because general consensus is expensive, practical systems reserve it. Butler lampson is a technical fellow at microsoft corporation and an adjunct professor of computer science and electrical engineering at mit. Lampson due to a planned maintenance, this dblp server may become temporarily unavailable on friday, may 01, 2020. Turing award winning computer scientist butler lampson briefly discusses his education and work in timesharing with project genie, the cal timesharing system cal computer center, and the berkeley computer corporation bcc, as well as his seminal work at xerox parc systems and graphics work to create the office of the futurethe alto and the basis for the xerox starthe primary. He spent a dozen years at xerox parc during the 1970s and 1980s when the lab was at its peak, and nearly a decade at digital equipment corporations systems research center. The main goal was to bring a bit of modernism to serif fonts by working on the curves of classical serif fonts and adding an extra stencil family. He was on the faculty at berkeley and then at the computer science laboratory at xerox parc and at digitalas systems research center. Butler lampson nancy lynch the paxos algorithm is an efficient and highly faulttolerant algorithm, devised by lamport, for reaching consensus in a distributed system. December 23, 1943, in washington, dc computerrelated contributions.
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