Q&A: The Power of Distribution.

An interview is presented with Nancy Lynch, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Topics include her career in computer science at institutions such as the University of Southern California, the 1985 FLP impossibility proof for distributed computing, the design and development of...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 56; no. 3; pp. 104 - 106
Main Author: Hoffmann, Leah
Format: Interview
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Mar2013
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