How a Turing Award–winning researcher also became a legendary academic advisor
Theoretical computer scientist Manuel Blum has guided generations of graduate students into fruitful careers in the field.
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When he invented Turing machines in 1936, Alan Turing also invented modern computing.
Source: quantamagazine.org
MIT community members win 2023 IEEE medals and awards
MIT faculty Rodney Brooks, Tom Leighton, and Daniela Rus, and alumni José Manuel Fonseca Moura, Rebecca Rae Richards-Kortum, Radia Perlman, and Alexander Waibel received top IEEE honors for 2023.
Source: mit.edu
Math enthusiasts take aim at STEM glass ceiling
High school junior Jessica Wan received the top $50,000 prize, with a score of 17 out of 20, out of 240 girls in the U.S. and Canada competing in the Math Prize for Girls annual contest at MIT.
New York United States Saratoga High School Thomas Jefferson High School New Hampshire Cornell University
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Peter Shor wins Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
MIT Professor Peter Shor has won the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics with three others for “foundational work in the field of quantum information.” In addition, Daniel A. Spielman PhD ’95 has won the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Mathematics.
Source: mit.edu
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Daniel Spielman solves important problems by thinking hard — about other questions.
Shang Hua Teng Robert Gallager Daniel Spielman Michael Sipser Yale University Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
Source: quantamagazine.org
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By carefully constructing a multidimensional and well-connected graph, a team of researchers has finally created a long-sought locally testable code that can…
Source: quantamagazine.org