In the late 1980s, computer scientist Leslie Lam­port, MA’63, PhD’72, H’17, decided the best way to explain his latest theory was to make up a story about Paxos, a small island in Greece. During ...

Computer scientist Leslie Lamport — celebrated as “the father of principled ... Many observers consider his most famous work to be the Paxos algorithm, which guarantees the safety of computer code ...