4 ms·
Since ACM is the major organization for computer science research, nearly everyone who has studied Paxos should know of the ACM. Lamport's own seminal papers i
by mbrubeck 13y ago
Since ACM is the major organization for computer science research, nearly everyone who has studied Paxos should know of the ACM. Lamport's own seminal papers introducing distributed clocks and Paxos were published in the journals Communications of the ACM and ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, respectively.
- marshray 13y agoYes, I know of the ACM. But why would I have expected a global scope 'Turing Award' to have anything to do with them? Was Turing a member?
- mbrubeck 13y agoThe official name of the award is the "ACM A.M. Turing Award" if that eases your fears about global namespace pollution. :) And it really is the "Nobel Prize of computer science"; the fact that not all practitioners have heard of it is just another indication of the sad divide between researchers and practitioners in our field. :(
- marshray 13y agoOn the bright side, I (a practitioner) browsed the list of past awardees and recognized the name and work of nearly all of them. It seems quite common for Nobel laureates' work to have been in such a specialized subfield that few people had even heard of it.