Avi Wigderson Wins 2023 Turing Award for Groundbreaking Work in Computation Theory

The award honors his contributions to understanding randomness in computation and his influential theoretical work in computer science.

Avi Wigderson, a computational scientist at the Institute for Advanced Study, received the 2023 Turing Award from the ACM.
The Turing Award, often called the 'Nobel of Computing', recognizes Wigderson's reshaping of the role of randomness in computation.
Wigderson's work includes significant insights into derandomization, proving that probabilistic algorithms can be replaced by deterministic ones.
His theoretical contributions extend beyond computation to influence fields like quantum physics, computational biology, and economics.
Wigderson's curiosity and mentorship continue to inspire a new generation of researchers in theoretical computer science.