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Leslie Valiant
FRS
Valiant in 2012
Born
Leslie Gabriel Valiant
(1949-03-28) 28 March 1949 (age 75)
Budapest, Hungarian Republic
Nationality
British
Alma mater
University of Cambridge (BA)
Imperial College London (MS)
University of Warwick (PhD)
Known for
Valiant–Vazirani theorem[2]
Counting problem[3]
Probably approximately correct learning
Awards
Turing Award (2010)
EATCS Award (2008)
Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2001)
Knuth Prize (1997)
AAAI Fellow (1992)
Nevanlinna Prize (1986)
Scientific career
Fields
Mathematics Theoretical computer science Computational learning theory Theoretical neuroscience
Institutions
Harvard University
University of Edinburgh
Thesis
Decision Procedures for Families of Deterministic Pushdown Automata(1974)
Doctoral advisor
Mike Paterson[1]
Doctoral students
Mark Jerrum
Michael Kearns
Dan Roth[1]
Website
people.seas.harvard.edu/~valiant
Leslie Gabriel ValiantFRS[4][5] (born 28 March 1949) is a British American[6] computer scientist and computational theorist.[7][8] He was born to a chemical engineer father and a translator mother.[9] He is currently the T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Harvard University.[10][11][12][13] Valiant was awarded the Turing Award in 2010, having been described by the A.C.M. as a heroic figure in theoretical computer science and a role model for his courage and creativity in addressing some of the deepest unsolved problems in science; in particular for his "striking combination of depth and breadth".[6]
^ abLeslie Valiant at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
^Valiant, L.; Vazirani, V. (1986). "NP is as easy as detecting unique solutions" (PDF). Theoretical Computer Science. 47: 85–93. doi:10.1016/0304-3975(86)90135-0.
^Valiant, L. G. (1979). "The Complexity of Enumeration and Reliability Problems". SIAM Journal on Computing. 8 (3): 410–421. doi:10.1137/0208032.
^"Leslie Valiant FRS". London: Royal Society. 1991.
^DServe Archive Catalog Show
^ abCite error: The named reference turingAward was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Hoffmann, L. (2011). "Q&A: Leslie Valiant discusses machine learning, parallel computing, and computational neuroscience". Communications of the ACM. 54 (6): 128. doi:10.1145/1953122.1953152.
^Anon (2017). "Valiant, Prof. Leslie Gabriel". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U40928. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^"A. M. Turing Award Oral History Interview with Leslie Gabriel Valiant" (PDF).
^Leslie Valiant author profile page at the ACM Digital Library
^Wigderson, A. (2009). "The work of Leslie Valiant". Proceedings of the 41st annual ACM symposium on Symposium on theory of computing - STOC '09. pp. 1–2. doi:10.1145/1536414.1536415. ISBN 9781605585062. S2CID 15370663.
^Leslie G. Valiant at DBLP Bibliography Server
^Valiant, Leslie (1984). "A theory of the learnable" (PDF). Communications of the ACM. 27 (11): 1134–1142. doi:10.1145/1968.1972. S2CID 12837541.
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