![]() ![]() ![]() This comes up, for example, in the database area where processors are handling or managing data transactions. If you have many processors that want to make a decision, and some have an initial preference of voting “yes,” and some have an initial preference of voting “no,” you want to have them exchange their information and decide one way or the other. ![]() Lynch: “FLP” is just the authors' initials-Fischer, Lynch, and Paterson-for my best-known paper that we wrote back in 1985, which is called “Impossibility of distributed consensus with one faulty process” ( 1). Distributed computing was a new “hot area” at the time, and I figured that this was an area where theoretical techniques could have something to contribute. ![]() I had been working in theoretical computer science, but I thought that it would be more interesting to look for an area that would connect better with practical computer science research. Lynch: I got interested in this area back in 1977 or 1978, soon after I joined the faculty at Georgia Tech. PNAS: Why did you decide to study distributed computing? Image courtesy of Tony Rinaldo (photographer). ![]()
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