Without a doubt.
Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System. Leslie Lamport.
http://amturing.acm.org/p558-lamport.pdf
My first introduction to time scales as a partial ordering. Very mind opening.
Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System. Leslie Lamport.
http://amturing.acm.org/p558-lamport.pdf
My first introduction to time scales as a partial ordering. Very mind opening.
I once spoke to Henri Gouraud after he gave a talk. He was very self-deprecating and acutely embarrassed that his name was attached to a blindingly obvious first-thing-that-comes-into-your-head shading expression-that-barely-deserves-the-name-algorithm. Sometimes that low hanging stuff gives you stomach ache.
"Designing croquet's TeaTime: a real-time, temporal environment for active object cooperation", David Reed :