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Understanding and implementing this algorithm was very rewarding. While Lamport didn't win a specific award for the problem itself, his work on it, and related concepts in distributed computing, earned him the prestigious A.M. Turing Award in 2013.
Understanding and implementing this algorithm was very rewarding. While Lamport didn't win a specific award for the problem itself, his work on it, and related concepts in distributed computing, earned him the prestigious A.M. Turing Award in 2013.