Leslie Lamport: Preserving causality with logical clocks

In 1978 Leslie Lamport published the paper "Time, clocks, and the ordering of events in a distributed system" which became one of the most cited papers in computer science.
Lamport is principal researcher at Microsoft Research and winner of the 2013 Turing Award. He explains how an understanding of special relativity helped him realise how to order events in computer science, and enable the development of distributed computing.
You can read more in the article
plus.maths.org/content/clocks...
the third in a series on Leslie Lamport's work
plus.maths.org/content/stuff-...
This interview was filmed in September 2016 at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum.

[@reyou7]

A Lamport timestamp bears no relationship to a physical time-of-day clock, but it
provides total ordering: if you have two timestamps, the one with a greater counter

[@liveldy]

He is the G.O.A.T of distributed systems

[@eldoprano]

Nice to hear it explained by it's creator, but he confused me too much :P

[@DanielYWoo]

He is my superstar

[@sergissantiago]

Awesome , I have to look about the impact of this on blockchain :)