Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System, L. Lamport

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// Tentative Schedule

• 7:00-7:15–Introduction and Announcements

• 7:15-8:40– Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System, L. Lamport led by Hugo Estrada

• 8:40-9:00–Informal paper discussion

// Papers

Leslie Lamport's 1978 paper tackles the problem of synchronizing events in a distributed system. The talk will discuss the problem and walk through the algorithm that he offers as a solution. https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/time-clocks.pdf