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The prolific researcher found deep connections between randomness and computation and spent a career influencing cryptographers, complexity researchers and more. For more than 40 years, Avi Wigderson ...

The latest winner was given the ‘Nobel Prize of computing’ for helping to reshape our understanding of the role of randomness in computation. Leading theoretical computer scientist Avi Wigderson has ...

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