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Avi Wigderson (Hebrew: אבי ויגדרזון; born 9 September 1956) is an Israeli computer scientist and mathematician. He is the Herbert H. Maass Professor in the school of mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton , New Jersey, United States of America. [2]
Avi Wigderson. I am the Herbert H. Maass Professor at the School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. I organize the school activities in CSDM (Computer Science and Discrete Mathematics). My main research interests are:
Apr 10, 2024 · Princeton graduate alumnus Avi Wigderson has won the 2023 A.M. Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), recognizing his profound contributions to the mathematical underpinnings of computation. The Turing Award is considered the highest honor in computer science, often called the “Nobel Prize of Computing.”.
Apr 10, 2024 · Avi Wigderson won the Turing Award for his wide-ranging contributions to the theory of computation. Talia Herman for Quanta Magazine. For more than 40 years, Avi Wigderson has studied problems. But as a computational complexity theorist, he doesn’t necessarily care about the answers to these problems. He often just wants to know if they’re ...
Avi Wigderson is the Herbert H. Maass Professor in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He has been a leading figure in areas including computational complexity theory, algorithms and optimization, randomness and cryptography, parallel and distributed computation, combinatorics, and graph theory, as well as connections between theoretical computer science and mathematics and science.
Apr 10, 2024 · Avi Wigderson received the Turing Award for his foundational contributions to the theory of computation. Credit: Dan Komoda. A leader in the field of computational theory is the latest winner of ...
Apr 10, 2024 · Avi Wigderson is “a wonderful colleague and a longtime friend of the University,” according to provost Jennifer Rexford. Wigderson is best known for his work on computational complexity theory, especially the role of randomness in computation.
