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Computer scientist wins Turing Award for seminal work on randomness
Avi Wigderson helped prove that randomness is not required for efficient computation.
Computational scientist and mathematician Avi Wigderson of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) at Princeton University has won the 2023 A.M. Turing Award. It is named in honor of the British mathematician Alan Turing, who helped develop a theoretical foundation for understanding machine computation. He also won the prestigious Abel Prize(essentially the Nobel for mathematics) in 2021 for his work in theoretical computer science—the first person to be so doubly honored.
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