Leslie Lamport is a computer scientist & mathematician who won ACM's Turing Award in 2013 for his fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of distributed and concurrent systems. He also created LaTeX and TLA+, a high-level language for "writing down the ideas that go into the program before you do any coding."
Thinking outside the box of code (Interview) | The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source podcast - Listen or read transcript on Metacast
