Eric Brewer vs Nancy Lynch

Eric Brewer is an American computer scientist at the University of California, Berkeley. He proposed the CAP theorem in 2000, which states that a distributed system cannot simultaneously guarantee consistency, availability, and partition tolerance. He also co-founded Inktomi, an early internet infrastructure company, and has been affiliated with Google.

Nancy Lynch is an American computer scientist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, specializing in the theory of distributed computing. She is best known for co-authoring the 1985 FLP impossibility result, which mathematically proved that asynchronous distributed systems cannot reliably achieve consensus if even one process fails. Her broader research focuses on designing an...