Butler Lampson is an American computer scientist whose work helped establish distributed personal computing as a practical technology. At Xerox PARC he contributed to the SDS 940 time-sharing system and the Xerox Alto, an early personal computer with a graphical interface that influenced later systems including the Macintosh and Windows. He received the 1992 ACM Turing Award for these contributions.
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Butler W. Lampson (born December 23, 1943) is an American computer scientist best known for his contributions to the development and implementation of distributed personal computing.
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Butler W. Lampson is an American computer scientist best known for his contributions to the development and implementation of distributed personal computing.
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Infobox workplaces: University of California, Berkeley; Xerox PARC; Digital Equipment Corporation; Microsoft; Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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