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While his work on distributed computing was certainly great, I find it curious that the press release doesn't even mention the achievement of Lamport that proba

While his work on distributed computing was certainly great, I find it curious that the press release doesn't even mention the achievement of Lamport that probably was important to lot more people: The creation of LaTeX. Sure, its not something typically honored by the Turing Award but leaving it out entirely? Come on!

rosche 13y ago
Well, LaTeX is a (slight) improvement over TeX, which was written by D Knuth. I don't think that is what they would give a Turing Award to someone for.
- cschmidt 13y ago
  Sure, but I saw the headline and though "Oh, the guy who wrote the LaTex book". http://www.amazon.com/LaTeX-Document-Preparation-System-2nd/dp/0201529831 http://www.amazon.com/LaTeX-Document-Preparation-System-2nd/... I imagine that is how he is best known. I didn't even know he did LaTex, just the book.
  - jgreen10 13y ago
    Perhaps in terms of quantity, but to many he is the man who single-handedly brought order to distributed systems. I was surprised he had not won a Turing award yet.
javert 13y ago
> achievement of Lamport that probably was important to lot more people Not necessarily. We all use distributed systems that have been influenced by Lamport. It's just that we don't even think about it when we do it.
avmich 13y ago
You think, if Noam Chomsky would receive the Turing award, they'll talk about his other achievements?