Butler Lampson at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2018
Born
(1943-12-23) December 23, 1943 (age 80)
Washington, D.C.
Alma mater
Harvard University (AB) University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Known for
SDS 940, Xerox Alto
Awards
Turing Award (1992)
ACM Fellow (1994)
IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2001)
Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2005)
Draper Prize (2004)
Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2018)
Scientific career
Fields
Computer science
Institutions
University of California, Berkeley Xerox PARC Digital Equipment Corporation Microsoft Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis
Scheduling and Protection in an Interactive Multi-Processor System(1967)
Doctoral advisor
Harry Huskey
Website
research.microsoft.com/lampson (archived)
Butler W. Lampson FRS (born December 23, 1943) is an American computer scientist best known for his contributions to the development and implementation of distributed personal computing.
Butler W. Lampson FRS (born December 23, 1943) is an American computer scientist best known for his contributions to the development and implementation...
graphical interface designs. It was conceived in 1972 in a memo written by ButlerLampson, inspired by the oN-Line System (NLS) developed by Douglas Engelbart...
(FTSE) is a term originated by Andrew Koenig to describe a remark by ButlerLampson attributed to David J. Wheeler: "We can solve any problem by introducing...
technical report, Wildflower: An Architecture for a Personal Computer, by ButlerLampson. It is based on the AMD Am2900 bitslice microprocessor technology. An...
communicate by the computer security policy. The term, originated in 1973 by ButlerLampson, is defined as channels "not intended for information transfer at all...
Simonyi was recruited to Xerox PARC by ButlerLampson during its most productive period, working alongside Lampson, Alan Kay and Robert Metcalfe on the...
"indirection."[citation needed] It is also sometimes misattributed to ButlerLampson. Kevlin Henney's corollary to this is, "...except for the problem of...
directed by Melvin W. Pirtle and Wayne Lichtenberger at UC Berkeley. ButlerLampson, Chuck Thacker, and L. Peter Deutsch were among the young technical...
a web site is relocated to a different server. A famous aphorism of ButlerLampson goes: "All problems in computer science can be solved by another level...
document preparation program for the Alto produced at Xerox PARC by ButlerLampson, Charles Simonyi and colleagues in 1974, is generally considered to...
and Systems Research Center. Among the researchers at SRC, there are ButlerLampson, Chuck Thacker, and Leslie Lamport, all recipients of the ACM A.M. Turing...
University of Hawaii. Metclafe, with John Shoch, Yogen Dalal, Ed Taft, and ButlerLampson also developed the PARC Universal Packet for internetworking. In 1974...
patent application listing Metcalfe, David Boggs, Chuck Thacker, and ButlerLampson as inventors. In 1976, after the system was deployed at PARC, Metcalfe...
undergraduates Chuck Thacker and L. Peter Deutsch and doctoral student ButlerLampson. The heart of the system was the Monitor (roughly what is now usually...
Standard MUMPS MUMPS 1977 Icon (concept) Ralph Griswold SNOBOL 1977 Euclid ButlerLampson at Xerox PARC, Ric Holt and James Cordy at University of Toronto 1977...
Engelbart, Alan Shugart, Ivan Sutherland 2006: Tony Hoare, Bob Kahn, ButlerLampson, Marvin Minsky 2007: John L. Hennessy, David Patterson, Morris Chang...
1145/581690.581694. ISBN 978-1-58113-605-0. Lazy and Speculative Execution ButlerLampson Microsoft Research OPODIS, Bordeaux, France 12 December 2006 "Out of...
original on November 17, 2021. Retrieved March 4, 2024. Roy Levin. "Butler W Lampson - A.M. Turing Award Laureate". Association for Computing Machinery...
series of machines, some of which share the Wildflower CPU design by ButlerLampson. Machines in this series include, in order, Dolphin, Dorado, Dicentra...
originally designed to operate from a teletype terminal were also available. ButlerLampson estimated that about 60 of the machines were sold. The major customer...
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