Nancy Lynch
Computer Scientist
1948 –
Who is Nancy Lynch?
Nancy Ann Lynch is a professor at 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.
She is the author of numerous research articles about distributed algorithms and impossibility results, and about formal modeling and validation of distributed systems. She is the author of the graduate textbook "Distributed Algorithms". She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and an ACM Fellow.
Lynch's academic training was in mathematics, at Brooklyn College and MIT, where she received her Ph.D. in 1972 under the supervision of Albert R. Meyer. She served on the math and computer science faculty at several other universities, including Tufts University, the University of Southern California and 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.
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- Born
- Jan 19, 1948
United States of America - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Brooklyn College
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Employment
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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on July 23, 2013
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