レスリー・ヴァリアント(Leslie Valiant)

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Leslie Gabriel Valiant (born 28 March 1949) is a British American computer scientist and computational theorist. He was born to a chemical engineer father and a translator mother. He is currently the T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Harvard University. Valiant was awarded the Turing Award in 2010, having been described by the A.C.M.理論的コンピューターサイエンスの英雄的人物として、そして科学における最も深い未解決の問題のいくつかに取り組む勇気と創造性のロールモデルとして。 in particular for his "striking combination of depth and breadth".

経歴

1. 1949
   Born
2. 1985
   Won Guggenheim Fellowship
3. 1997
   Won Knuth Prize
4. 2001
   Member of National Academy of Sciences
5. 2008
   Won EATCS award
6. 2010
   Won Turing Award
7. Member of Royal Society
8. Member of Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
9. Won Fellow of the Royal Society

豆知識

• •Place of birth: Budapest
• •Citizenship: United Kingdom, United States
• •Known as: computer scientist, university teacher