Butler Lampson

Butler W. Lampson

FRS
Butler W. Lampson; FRS
	Butler Lampson at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2018
Born	December 23, 1943; 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.

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