Nancy Lynch

Nancy Ann Lynch ( born January 19, 1948 in Brooklyn ) is an American computer scientist.

Nancy Lynch studied at Brooklyn College and in 1972 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Albert Ronald da Silva Meyer PhD ( Relativization in the theory of computational complexity ). Then she was before she went again in 1982 at Tufts University, the University of Southern California and Georgia Tech to MIT. She is there NEC Professor for Software Science and Engineering and Director of the Research Department of Distributed Systems at the Faculty of computer science and electrical engineering.

Lynch is an acknowledged expert on Distributed Computing and Distributed Systems (Distributed Systems). 2001 and 2007 she received the Dijkstra Prize, in 2006 the price Wijngaarden, 2007 Knuth Prize in 2010 and the IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award. Since 2001 she is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Writings

  • Distributed Algorithms. Morgan Kaufmann, 1996
  • Michael Merritt, William Weihl, Alan Fekete: Atomic transactions. Morgan Kaufmann, 1994
  • With Dilsun Kaynar, Roberto Segala, Frits Vaandrager: The theory of timed I / O automata. Morgan Kaufmann, 2006
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