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Butler Lampson Alive

Butler Lampson
KindPerson
Born1943
StatusAlive
Fieldoperating systems
Sourcewww.microsoft.com ↗

Led the Alto and Bravo teams at PARC, co-designed the first laser printer and ethernet protocols — a personal-computing architect.

Worked at Xerox PARC
Created Hints for Computer System Design

Designed the Xerox Alto's software (Bravo, the first WYSIWYG editor), influenced the laser printer and Ethernet, and wrote 'Hints for Computer System Design.'\n\nTuring Award 1992; the 'end-to-end argument' (with Saltzer/Reed/Clark) shaped the internet.

Sources

  1. microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/blampson/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butler_Lampson