# Leslie Lamport (@leslie-lamport)

Leslie Lamport was a American computer scientist. Lamport showed how a happened-before relation and logical timestamps can order events in distributed systems without a single global clock.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Leslie Lamport's public record._

## Topics

- [LaTeX and Communication](/@leslie-lamport/latex-and-communication.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Consensus and Faults](/@leslie-lamport/consensus-and-faults.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Logical Clocks](/@leslie-lamport/logical-clocks.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/lamport_1205376.cfm
- blog: https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/pubs.html
- blog: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/lamport/

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "leslie-lamport", "question": "…"}`.