Dr. Butler Lampson is Technical Fellow at Microsoft Corporation and an Adjunct Professor at MIT. Dr. Lampson has made pioneering contributions to computer architecture, local area networks, raster printers, page description languages, operating systems, remote procedure call, programming languages and their semantics, programming in the large, fault-tolerant computing, transaction processing, computer security, WYSIWYG editors, and tablet computers. He was one of the designers of the SDS 940 time-sharing system, the Alto personal distributed computing system, the Xerox 9700 laser printer, two-phase commit protocols, the Autonet LAN, the SPKI system for network security, the Microsoft Tablet PC software, the Microsoft Palladium high-assurance stack, and several programming languages. Dr. Lampson received the ACM Turing Award in 1992, the ACM Software Systems Award in 1984, the IEEE Computer Pioneer award in 1996, the von Neumann Medal in 2001, and the NAE Draper Prize in 2004.