2024-04-11
Avi Wigderson wins Turing Award! Stat 1: The volume and diversity of his work is mind-boggling. Avi has 103 papers in STOC/FOCS, nobody else has even 60 papers. Stat 2: The hit rate of Nevanlinna prize winners getting Turing is really high. Three out of Four!...
Quanta Magazine
Computer scientist Avi Wigderson wins the 2023 Turing Award for his “foundational contributions to the theory of computation”, including his work on randomness
friend and mentor to so many (including me) https://www.acm.org/... Tarun Chitra / @tarunchitra : Some of my favorite Wigderson papers are: 1. Hardness vs. Randomness 2. Algebrizat...