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Butler Lampson

Butler W. Lampson FRS (born December 23, 1943) is an American computer scientist best known for his contributions to the development and implementation of distributed personal computing.

Butler W. Lampson
FRS

(1943-12-23) December 23, 1943

Washington, D.C.

Harvard University (AB)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD)

SDS 940, Xerox Alto

Computer science

University of California, Berkeley
Xerox PARC
Digital Equipment Corporation
Microsoft
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Scheduling and Protection in an Interactive Multi-Processor System (1967)

Harry Huskey

research.microsoft.com/lampson (archived)

Education and early life[edit]

After graduating from the Lawrenceville School (where in 2009 he was awarded the Aldo Leopold Award, also known as the Lawrenceville Medal, Lawrenceville's highest award to alumni), Lampson received an A.B. in physics (magna cum laude with highest honors in the discipline) from Harvard University in 1964 and a PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1967.

In 1984, he was elected a member of the .

National Academy of Engineering

In 1984, he won the ACM Software System Award for the , along with Robert W. Taylor, and Charles P. Thacker.

Alto

In 1986, he received an honorary Sc.D. from the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich.

In 1992, he won the prestigious Turing Award for his contributions to personal computing and computer science.[3]

ACM

In 1993, he became a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

In 1994, he was inducted as a of the ACM.

Fellow

In 1996, he received the .

IEEE Computer Pioneer Award

In 1996, he received an honorary Sc.D. from the University of Bologna.

In 2001, he received the .[4]

IEEE John von Neumann Medal

In 2004, he won the along with Alan C. Kay, Robert W. Taylor, and Charles P. Thacker for their work on Alto.[5]

Charles Stark Draper Prize

In 2005, he was elected a .[6]

Member of the National Academy of Sciences

In 2006, he was inducted as a Fellow of the "for fundamental contributions to computer science, including networked personal workstations, operating systems, computer security and document publishing." Computer History Museum Fellow (2006).[7]

Computer History Museum

In 2006, he received the IFIP TC11 Kristian Beckman Award for information security.

In 2016, he was inducted into the .

National Cyber Security Hall of Fame

In 2018, he was elected as a .

Foreign Member of the Royal Society

Lampson's website

The milliLampson unit

Butler Lampson. , 11 December 2014, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota

Oral history interview