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in 1986. He received tenure in 1987 and became a full professor in 1991. In 1999 he also took a position at the Institute for Advanced Study, and in 2003 he gave up his Hebrew University position to take up full-time residence at the
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discovered that for algorithms that solve problems through coin flipping, there exists an algorithm that is almost as fast that does not use coin flipping as long as presets are met.
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Wigderson investigated Computational questions and specifically the role of randomness in the field. Wigderson together with
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for his contributions to "the foundations of computer science in areas including randomized computation, cryptography,
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for his contributions to the understanding of randomness in the theory of computation.
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2018 ACM Fellows Honored for Pivotal Achievements that Underpin the Digital Age
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Heidelberg Laureate Foundation Portraits, interview with Avi Wigderson, 2017.
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for "contributions to theoretical computer science and mathematics".
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can be utilized in proving public results on secret data in secret.
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in Berkeley, he returned to Israel and joined the faculty of the
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ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory
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Avi Wigderson and Colleagues Honored with 2009 Gödel Prize
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Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
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2018 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
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Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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in Haifa. He began his undergraduate studies at the
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Wigderson is a graduate of the 38: 1646: 1217: 750: 591:"Avi Wigderson GS '83 awarded Abel Prize" 503: 273: 79:Technion – Israel Institute of Technology 1871: 974: 935: 332:Mathematical Sciences Research Institute 849:American Academy of Arts & Sciences 561: 222:; born 9 September 1956) is an Israeli 2809: 1008:Castelvecchi, Davide (17 March 2021). 2185: 1845: 1620: 1191: 1076: 941: 539:"Faculty | IAS School of Mathematics" 432:American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2877:Institute for Advanced Study faculty 724: 722: 720: 718: 716: 714: 712: 710: 708: 647: 645: 618: 616: 387: 2887:20th-century Israeli mathematicians 881:Association for Computing Machinery 754:Studies in computational complexity 484:Association for Computing Machinery 219: 169:Studies in Computational Complexity 13: 2852:American people of Israeli descent 855:from the original on 20 April 2021 693:from the original on 16 March 2023 663:from the original on 10 April 2024 630:from the original on 10 April 2024 601:from the original on 22 March 2021 549:from the original on 5 August 2020 320:University of California, Berkeley 318:After short-term positions at the 313: 14: 2928: 1046: 975:Hartnett, Kevin (17 March 2021). 887:from the original on 22 June 2019 705: 642: 613: 520:from the original on 5 March 2016 430:2011: Elected as a member of the 2837:21st-century American scientists 2827:20th-century American scientists 2794: 2782: 942:Chang, Kenneth (17 March 2021). 2912:Theoretical computer scientists 1030:from the original on 5 May 2021 1001: 989:from the original on 5 May 2021 956:from the original on 5 May 2021 924:from the original on 5 May 2021 898: 867: 837: 806: 789: 773: 761:from the original on 5 May 2021 2842:21st-century Israeli engineers 2832:20th-century Israeli engineers 744: 730:"A biography of Avi Wigderson" 675: 583: 531: 504:Wigderson, Avi (22 May 2014), 497: 1: 784:Mathematics Genealogy Project 490: 820:Institute for Advanced Study 306:", under the supervision of 266:. He also received the 2023 264:theoretical computer science 232:Institute for Advanced Study 156:Institute for Advanced Study 146:Theoretical computer science 7: 2902:Princeton University alumni 2882:Israeli computer scientists 324:IBM Almaden Research Center 10: 2933: 2897:Nevanlinna Prize laureates 1024:10.1038/d41586-021-00694-9 278:Avi Wigderson was born in 2222: 1880: 1655: 1226: 1111: 1053:Avi Wigderson's home page 419:zig-zag product of graphs 258:. Wigderson received the 205: 191: 179: 161: 151: 141: 134: 103: 89: 74: 49: 37: 30: 23: 1943:S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan 399:computational complexity 397:in 1994 for his work on 357:Wigderson developed the 304:computational complexity 262:in 2021 for his work in 98:Computational complexity 31: 1170:Constantinos Daskalakis 751:Wigderson, Avi (1983). 2917:Turing Award laureates 2236:Maurice Vincent Wilkes 274:Early life and studies 2867:Knuth Prize laureates 2862:Gödel Prize laureates 382:zero-knowledge proofs 256:distributed computing 2847:Abel Prize laureates 2044:John Forbes Nash Jr. 1064:Bibliography Server 576:12 June 2010 at the 439:2018: Elected as an 328:San Jose, California 300:Princeton University 83:Princeton University 2664:Michael Stonebraker 2436:Fernando J. Corbató 883:, 5 December 2018, 352:Russell Impagliazzo 288:Hebrew Reali School 244:parallel algorithms 2620:Charles P. Thacker 2464:Richard E. Stearns 2340:Kenneth E. Iverson 2276:Edsger W. Dijkstra 2260:James H. Wilkinson 2213:A. M. 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Haifa
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Princeton University
Zig-zag product
Computational complexity
Nevanlinna Prize
Gödel Prize
Knuth Prize
Abel Prize
Turing Award
Theoretical computer science
Institute for Advanced Study
Thesis
Studies in Computational Complexity
Doctoral advisor
Richard Lipton
Dorit Aharonov
Ran Raz
Hebrew
computer scientist
mathematician
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton
complexity theory
parallel algorithms
graph theory
cryptography
distributed computing
Abel Prize

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