Butler Lampson

Butler Lampson FRS
Lampson in 2018
Born	(1943-12-23) December 23, 1943 (age 81) Washington, D.C.
Education	Harvard University (BA) University of California, Berkeley (MS, PhD)
Known for	SDS 940, Xerox Alto
Awards	Turing Award (1992) ACM Fellow (1994) IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2001) Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2005) Draper Prize (2004) Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2018)
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley Xerox PARC Digital Equipment Corporation Microsoft Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis	Scheduling and Protection in an Interactive Multi-Processor System (1967)
Doctoral advisor	Harry Huskey
Website	research.microsoft.com/lampson (archived)

Butler W. Lampson (born December 23, 1943) is an American computer scientist best known for his contributions to the development and implementation of distributed personal computing.