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Éva Tardos

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Éva Tardos · Technology & Engineering

What

Hungarian-American founder of algorithmic game theory; Gödel Prize (2012), Knuth Prize (2023)

When

1957, Budapest, Hungary

Where

Hungary · United States (Ithaca, New York)

Biography

Éva Tardos is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Hungarian-American founder of algorithmic game theory; Gödel Prize (2012), Knuth Prize (2023)

How & why

Tardos, of Hungarian Jewish descent and from a family of scholars, is a theoretical computer scientist at Cornell. She designed influential efficient algorithms for network flows and combinatorial optimization and became a founder of algorithmic game theory, including analysis of the 'price of anarchy' in networks used by many independent agents. Her work links computer science with economics and won her the Gödel and Knuth Prizes.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Knuth & Gödel Prizes

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Hungarian-American founder of algorithmic game theory; Gödel Prize (2012), Knuth Prize (2023)

2012

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Knuth & Gödel Prizes