At the 1964 Fall Joint Computer Conference, a UC Berkeley physics student named Butler Lampson received a tip: find the unmarked door in Cory Hall. Behind it, he saw Peter Deutsch, an undergrad, ...

Just before retiring from day-to-day responsibilities at Microsoft in 2008, Chairman Bill Gates said that he expected Microsoft's 22 Technical Fellows to get a lot more publicly visible-- now that ...

Colleagues and friends will gather at the Microsoft New England Research & Development Center today to celebrate the many and momentous accomplishments made by computing pioneer, Microsoft New ...

About him: Lampson helped work on many revolutionary technologies, such as laser printer design; two-phase commit protocols; the first WYSIWYG text formatting program; Ethernet, the first high-speed ...

Talks by Butler Lampson and Donald Norman provided workshop participants with an overview of key challenges related to security and usability. Lampson’s presentation discussed the current state of ...