Leslie Lamport revolutionized how computers talk to each other. Now he’s working on how engineers talk to their machines.
An American computer scientist who was awarded the 2013 Turing Award for explaining and formulating the behavior of distributed computing systems. Initial developer of the LaTeX text formatting system, and of BibTeX and creator of the Bakery Algorithm.
He thinks that is important to spend more time thinking about the solution and the algorithms than writing code, but unfortunately that is not taught in undergraduate computer science courses.
He said that people shouldn’t be afraid of math, they probably understand math but not how to use it. They don’t know what good it is because they learn enough to pass the exam and then they forget about it.
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