IMU Abacus Medal (Nevanlinna Prize)

Jewish recipients of the IMU Abacus Medal (Nevanlinna Prize) documented in the ThankJews directory. Jews are about 55% of all recipients — while making up roughly 0.2% of the world's population.

55%of all recipients are Jewish

6 documented recipients

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Robert Tarjan1948

Pioneered graph and data-structure algorithms; Turing Award laureate.

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science

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Leslie Valiant1949

Created the PAC model of machine learning; Turing Award laureate.

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science

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Avi Wigderson1956

Foundational work on complexity and randomness; Turing Award laureate.

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science

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Jon Kleinberg2006

Pioneer of network analysis; invented the HITS link-ranking algorithm for web search; Nevanlinna Prize (2006)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the IMU Abacus Medal (Nevanlinna Prize)

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Daniel Spielman1970

Breakthroughs in coding theory and algorithm analysis.

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science

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Mark Braverman1984

Computational complexity and information complexity

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics