Alan Turing was one of the most influential British figures of the 20th century. In 1936, Turing invented the computer as ...

Computational scientist and mathematician Avi Wigderson of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton has won the 2023 A.M. Turing Award. The prize, which is given annually by the Association ...

For the first time since the inception of the Turing Test in 1950, a computer has been able to pass by convincing humans that it is a 13-year-old boy named Eugene Goostman. Smart strategy—everybody ...

Princeton graduate alumnus Avi Wigderson has won the 2023 A.M. Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), recognizing his profound contributions to the mathematical underpinnings ...

Your new computer overlord is here. And he thinks he’s a 13-year-old boy. Computer programmers from Russia put a potentially revolutionary new work to the test at England’s University of Reading this ...

Wigderson is the Herbert H. Maass Professor in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He has been a leading figure in areas including computational ...

The test of a new paradigm is often the extent to which it can settle old issues that other perspectives have failed to resolve. Where the diametric model of the mind is concerned, I have already ...

Avi Wigderson helped prove that randomness is not required for efficient computation. Hmm.. I know that some of the 'best' quantum algorithm are also probabilistic. (Such as Shor's algorithm.) I ...