Lamport on Byzantine Generals and Byzantine Failures

Leslie Lamport, winner of the Association for Computing Machinery's A.M. Turing Award, discuses his decision to frame influential work on asynchronous fault tolerance in distributed systems as a parable involving the coordination of a group of Byzantine Generals. This clip is taken from an interview conducted with Lamport by Roy Levin for the ACM and Computer History Museum on August 12, 2016 in Mountain View, CA. Video of the full interview is available as part of Lamport’s ACM profile at amturing.acm.org/award_winner....

[@bryanscantling106]

No rabbit holes here.

[@HershD]

its good to hear it from his own mouth

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half of internet speaks about this as an historical situation .... LOL