Butler Lampson — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Recipient of the 1992 ACM Turing Award for his contributions to distributed personal computing.
Serves as a Technical Fellow at Microsoft.
Co-developed the Berkeley Timesharing System in 1965 as part of Project GENIE at UC Berkeley.
Founding member of Xerox PARC in 1971, where he envisioned and helped create the Xerox Alto, considered the first actual personal computer.
Contributed to revolutionary technologies including laser printer design, two-phase commit protocols, Bravo (the first WYSIWYG text formatting program), and Ethernet (the first high-speed local area network).
Earned a PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1967.

Biography

Butler W. Lampson, born December 23, 1943, is an American computer scientist celebrated for his significant contributions to the development and implementation of distributed personal computing. He was awarded the 1992 ACM Turing Award for his pioneering work.

Lampson received an A.B. in physics from Harvard University in 1964 and a PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1967.