Computer Scientist Wins 2024 Turing Award for Work on Randomness in Algorithms

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Computer Scientist Wins 2024 Turing Award for Work on Randomness in Algorithms
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A computer scientist has been awarded the 2024 Turing award for his research on how randomness can shape and improve computer algorithms. The scientist, who was surprised by the award, has shown that computers can effectively utilize randomness in their algorithms to solve real-world problems.

has won the 2024 Turing award, often referred to as the Nobel prize for computing, for his work on understanding how randomness can shape and improve computer algorithms.in 2021 for his mathematical contributions to computer science , was taken aback by the award. “The committee fooled me into believing that we were going to have some conversation about collaborating,” he says. “When I zoomed in, the whole committee was there and they told me. I was excited, surprised and happy.

One of Wigderson’s most important discoveries was making clear the relationship between types of problems, in terms of their difficulty to solve, and randomness. He also showed that certain algorithms that contained randomness and were hard to run could be made deterministic, or non-random, and easier to run.”, which proposes that easy and hard problems for a computer to solve are fundamentally different.

However, his ideas have become important for a wide swath of modern computing applications, from cryptography to cloud computing. “Avi’s impact on the theory of computation in the last 40 years is second to none,” saysat the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. “The diversity of the areas to which he has contributed is stunning.”

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