Nancy Lynch, born on 19 January 1948 in Brooklyn, is an American computer scientist whose training was in mathematics and who holds the NEC Professorship of Software Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she leads the Theory of Distributed Systems group. After studying at Brooklyn College and MIT, she took her doctorate at MIT in 1972 under Albert R. Meyer, taught at several universities, and joined the MIT faculty in 1982. Her research applies mathematics to the understanding and construction of distributed systems, including distributed algorithms, impossibility results and formal modelling such as input/output automata. With Michael Fischer and Mike Paterson she showed that consensus is impossible in an asynchronous system if even one processor may crash, a 1985 result that earned the PODC Influential-Paper Award. She wrote the graduate textbook Distributed Algorithms and received the Knuth Prize in 2007.
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She is the NEC Professor of Software Science and Engineering in the EECS department
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Lynch was born in Brooklyn
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she has been working on applying mathematics to the tasks of understanding and constructing complex distributed systems
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