Leslie Valiant

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Computer scientist, university teacher (1949-)

United Kingdom AcademicsBorn 1949 · age 77

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Awards 12

2022Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

2012ACM Fellow

2012honorary doctorate at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon

2010Turing Award

2008EATCS award

2008Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

1997Knuth Prize

1992AAAI Fellow

1986IMU Abacus Medal

1986O'Reilly Open Source Award

1985Guggenheim Fellowship

Fellow of the Royal Society

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Christos PapadimitriouAlso won EATCS award

Avi WigdersonAlso won Knuth Prize

Pınar SelekAlso won honorary doctorate at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon

Richard S. SuttonAlso won AAAI Fellow Fabrice BellardAlso won O'Reilly Open Source Award

Michael O. RabinAlso won Turing Award

About this person

Leslie Gabriel Valiant 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. 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".

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