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Leslie Valiant

American computer scientist
Also known as: Leslie Gabriel Valiant
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Erik Gregersen is a senior editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica, specializing in the physical sciences and technology. Before joining Britannica in 2007, he worked at the University of Chicago Press on the...
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Leslie Valiant (born March 28, 1949, Budapest, Hung.) is a Hungarian-born American computer scientist and winner of the 2010 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, “for his fundamental contributions to the development of computational learning theory and to the broader theory of computer science.” Valiant received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Cambridge in 1970 and a diploma in computer science from Imperial College, London, in 1973. He was...

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