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DISC 20th Anniversary: Invited Talk Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of My Ideas About Distributed Systems

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A guided tour through the labyrinth of my thoughts, from the Bakery Algorithm to arbiter-free marked graphs. This exercise in egotism is by invitation of the DISC 20th Anniversary Committee. I take no responsibility for the choice of topic.

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Lamport, L. (2007). DISC 20th Anniversary: Invited Talk Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of My Ideas About Distributed Systems. In: Pelc, A. (eds) Distributed Computing. DISC 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4731. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75142-7_46

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