Manuel Blum
Venezuelan computer scientist · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1938 · age 88
Manuel Blum is a Venezuelan-born American computer scientist who received the 1995 ACM Turing Award "In recognition of his contributions to the foundations of computational complexity theory and its application to cryptography and program checking".
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, You are all computer scientists. You know what FINITE AUTOMATA can do. You know what TURING MACHINES can do. For example, Finite Automata can add but not multiply.
