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Nancy Lynch

American computer scientist

Field	Value
name	Nancy Lynch
birth_date
birth_place	Brooklyn, New York City
field	Computer science
work_institutions	Tufts University
University of Southern California
Florida International University
Georgia Tech
MIT
alma_mater	Brooklyn College
MIT
doctoral_advisor	Albert R. Meyer
doctoral_students	Cal Newport
George Varghese
known_for	Distributed systems
awards	ACM Fellow (1997)
Dijkstra Prize (2001, 2007)
Member, National Academy of Engineering (2001)
Van Wijngaarden Award (2006)
IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (2010)
Member, National Academy of Sciences (2015)
Knuth Prize (2007)
thesis_title	Relativization of the Theory of Computational Complexity
thesis_year	1972

University of Southern California Florida International University Georgia Tech MIT MIT George Varghese Dijkstra Prize (2001, 2007) Member, National Academy of Engineering (2001) Van Wijngaarden Award (2006) IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (2010) Member, National Academy of Sciences (2015) Knuth Prize (2007)

Nancy Ann Lynch (born January 19, 1948) is a computer scientist affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the NEC Professor of Software Science and Engineering in the EECS department and heads the "Theory of Distributed Systems" research group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

Education and early life

Lynch was born in Brooklyn, and her academic training was in mathematics. She attended Brooklyn College and MIT, where she received her Ph.D. in 1972 under the supervision of Albert R. Meyer.

Work

She served on the math and computer science faculty at several other universities, including Tufts University, the University of Southern California, Florida International University, and the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), prior to joining the MIT faculty in 1982. Since then, she has been working on applying mathematics to the tasks of understanding and constructing complex distributed systems. She has overseen the work of over 25 doctoral students, 50 master’s students, and several postdoctoral researchers.

Her 1985 work with Michael J. Fischer and Mike Paterson on consensus problems received the PODC Influential-Paper Award in 2001. Their work showed that in an asynchronous distributed system, consensus is impossible if there is one processor that crashes. On their contribution, Jennifer Welch wrote that "this result has had a monumental impact in distributed computing, both theory and practice. Systems designers were motivated to clarify their claims concerning under what circumstances the systems work."

She is the author of numerous research articles about distributed algorithms and impossibility results, and about formal modeling and validation of distributed systems (see, e.g., input/output automaton). She is the author of the graduate textbook "Distributed Algorithms". She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and an ACM Fellow.

Recognition

1997: ACM Fellow
2001: Dijkstra Paper Prize of PODC conference
2001: Elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for the development of theoretical foundations for distributed computing.
2006: Van Wijngaarden Award
2007: Knuth Prize
2007: Dijkstra Paper Prize of PODC conference
2010: IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award
2012: Athena Lecturer
2015: National Academy of Sciences{{cite web | url=http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/may-3-2016-NAS-Election.html

Bibliography

References

[https://books.google.com/books?id=7yGvrf3-gskC&q= ''Who's who of American women'']. Marquis Who's Who, 1973. p. 587.
Nancy, Lynch. (1972). "Relativization of the theory of computational complexity". Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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"Nancy Lynch".
(1985). "Impossibility of distributed consensus with one faulty process". [[Journal of the ACM]].
"PODC Influential Paper Award: 2001".
Lynch, Nancy. (1996). "Distributed Algorithms". [[Morgan Kaufmann Publishers]].
"Nancy A Lynch – Award Winner". [[Association for Computing Machinery]].
"NAE Members Directory - Dr. Nancy A. Lynch". [[National Academy of Engineering.
"IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award Recipients". IEEE.
(18 April 2012). "Lynch named Athena Lecturer". MIT News.

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