Butler W. Lampson

2 references under this name, matched as it is written. Somebody else may write under it too, and the same person may appear here spelled another way.

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Butler W. Lampson

A person somebody has written up.

Four records in this corpus carry his name, across two spellings now joined, and the split runs straight through the middle of his systems work.

Under 'Butler Lampson': 'A note on the confinement problem' (1973, CACM) and 'Hints for computer system design' (1983), both in performance-against-isolation. The first is the paper that named the covert channel -- that a program permitted to compute may still leak by any shared resource -- which is the premise the whole set is built on.

Under 'Butler W. Lampson': 'Experience with processes and monitors in Mesa' (1980, CACM), in what-a-process-may-share, and 'There's plenty of room at the Top' (2020, with Leiserson and others), which is in no set and is about what computing does after Moore's law.

So one spelling holds the confinement problem and the design hints, the other holds the monitors experience and a 2020 architecture paper. Nothing but the middle initial separated them.

Also worth noting for anyone working the corpus's no-copy backlog: 'Crash Recovery in a Distributed Data Storage System', which saltzer1984endtoend cites as reference 10 and which Saltzer's own reference list marks 'Submitted for publication', is requested as 96 and remains unheld. It was never formally published, so no registrar will answer for it.

Written from what this corpus holds. No ORCiD or homepage is recorded.

There's plenty of room at the Top: What will drive computer performance after Moore's law?
Charles E. Leiserson and others (2020) · Science · American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Experience with processes and monitors in Mesa
Butler W. Lampson and others (1980) · Communications of the ACM · Association for Computing Machinery