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Butler Lampson
Computer scientist

Butler Lampson

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Helping develop distributed personal computing at Xerox PARC.

Xerox Alto · Turing Award

Born
23 December 1943
Birthplace
Washington, D.C.

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Butler Lampson

Butler Lampson is an American computer scientist whose work includes time-sharing, personal computers, programming languages and distributed systems.

Early life

Education

Studied physics at Harvard and completed his doctorate at Berkeley in 1967.

Career

  1. 1965

    Time-sharing

    Worked with Peter Deutsch on the Berkeley Timesharing System.

  2. 1971

    Xerox PARC

    Joined the research laboratory.

  3. 1984

    DEC research

    Moved to Digital Equipment Corporation’s Systems Research Center.

  4. 1995

    Microsoft Research

    Joined Microsoft Research.

Contributions

Xerox Alto

Contributed to the experimental personal computer.

Turing Award

Recognised for contributions to distributed personal computing.

Beyond work

Teaching

Became an adjunct professor at MIT in 1987.

Sources & photo creditBiography and career ↗Biographical references ↗

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