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Computer Scientist Wins Turing Award for Seminal Work on Randomness
Computational scientist and mathematician Avi Wigderson of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton has won the 2023 A.M. Turing Award. From a report: The prize, which is given annually by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) to a computer scientist for their contributions to the...
Computational scientist and mathematician Avi Wigderson of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton 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 in 2021 for his work in theoretical computer science -- the first person to be so doubly honored.
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