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Leslie Valiant

American computer scientist
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Leslie Gabriel Valiant
Born:
March 28, 1949, Budapest, Hung. (age 75)
Awards And Honors:
Turing Award (2010)
Rolf Nevanlinna Prize (1986)
Subjects Of Study:
learning theory
computational complexity
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Leslie Valiant (born March 28, 1949, Budapest, Hung.) Hungarian-born American computer scientist and winner of the 2010 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, “for his fundamental contributions to the development of computational learning theory and to the broader theory of computer science.” Valiant received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Cambridge in 1970 and a diploma in computer science from Imperial College, London, in 1973. He was an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh from 1973 to 1974, and he received a doctorate in computer science from the University of Warwick in ...(100 of 479 words)

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