Lamport on mutual exclusion: 27 years of planting seeds

  • Authors:
  • James H. Anderson

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the twentieth annual ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Mutual exclusion is a topic that Leslie Lamport has returned to many times throughout his career. This article, which is being written in celebration of Lamport's sixtieth birthday, is an attempt to survey some of his many contributions to research on this topic.