2013 Turing Award recipient Leslie Lamport describes his favourite maths tshirt, his final remaining goal in life, and whether he prefers tabs or spaces…

Leslie begins by describing his favourite maths tshirt, as based on the infamous Donald Knuth video here:    • Donald Knuth at Luleå University of T...  

You can buy the tshirt here: https://www.cottonexpressions.com/sho...

He then discusses the areas of his work he believes have had the greatest impact on distributed computing, his favourite type of clock, his publication in AIR on hair colour in France, and finally whether he prefers tabs or spaces when coding.

Paxos: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/279227...

Byzantine generals: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/357172...

On hair colour in France: https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pub...

Interview with Leslie Lamport of Microsoft Research. Recorded at the 2021 Heidelberg Laureate Forum.

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Heidelberg Laureate Forum
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