Computer scientist wins Turing Award for seminal work on randomness Avi Wigderson helped prove that randomness is not required for efficient computation.

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The 2023 winner of the Turing Award, known as the 'Nobel Prize of computer science,' has been selected as Avi Vigderson for his contributions to understanding randomness in computation.

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The 2023 Turing Award has been given to Avi Widgerson. The mathematician found that adding randomness into algorithms made them better at solving nondeterministic problems.

Avi Wigderson was honoured with the Turing Award for his role in reshaping our understanding randomness in computation.