Everything about Butler W Lampson totally explained
Butler W. Lampson (born
1943) is a renowned
computer scientist.
After graduating from the
Lawrenceville School, Lampson received his
Bachelor's degree in Physics from
Harvard University in
1964, and his
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the
University of California, Berkeley in
1967.
During the
1960s, Lampson and others were part of Project GENIE at UC Berkeley. In
1965, several
Project GENIE members, specifically Lampson and
Peter Deutsch, developed the
SDS 940's operating system.
Lampson was one of the founding members of
Xerox PARC in
1970, where he worked in the Computer Science Laboratory (CSL). His now-famous vision of a
personal computer was captured in the
1972 memo entitled "Why Alto?"
(External Link
). In
1973, the
Xerox Alto, with its three-button
mouse and full-page-sized
monitor was born, and is now considered to be the first actual personal computer (at least in terms of what has become the 'canonical' GUI mode of operation).
All the subsequent computers built at Xerox PARC followed a general blueprint called "Wildflower", written by Lampson, and this included the
D-Series Machines, the "Dolphin" (used in the
Xerox 1100 LISP machine), "Dandelion" (used in the
Xerox 8010 model of the
Xerox Star and
Xerox 1108 LISP machine), "Dandetiger" (used in the
Xerox 1109 LISP machine), "Dorado" (used in the
Xerox 1132 LISP machine), "Daybreak"
Xerox 6085, and "Dragon" (a 4-processor 6085 with one of the first snoopy caches, though never released to production).
At PARC, Lampson helped work on many other revolutionary technologies, such as
laser printer design; two-phase commit protocols;
Bravo, the first
WYSIWYG text formatting program;
Ethernet, the first high-speed
local area network (LAN); and designed several influential programming languages such as
Euclid.
By the early
1980s, Lampson left Xerox PARC for
Digital Equipment Corporation; he now works for
Microsoft Research. Lampson is also an
adjunct professor at
MIT.
In
1992, he won the distinguished
ACM Turing Award for his contributions to personal computing and
computer science and in
1994 he was inducted as a
Fellow of the
ACM.
Lampson's is often quoted as saying "Any problem in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection", but in his Turing Award Lecture
(External Link) in 1993, Lampson himself attributes this saying to
David Wheeler.
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