Noam Nisan
Noam Nisan · Technology & Engineering
Israeli pioneer of algorithmic game theory and complexity; Gödel Prize (2012), Knuth Prize (2016)
1961, Israel
Israel (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) · United States (UC Berkeley)
Noam Nisan is recognized among Israeli contributors to Technology & Engineering — Israeli pioneer of algorithmic game theory and complexity; Gödel Prize (2012), Knuth Prize (2016)
Nisan, an Israeli computer scientist at the Hebrew University, did foundational work in computational complexity — notably pseudorandomness and derandomization — and then helped create algorithmic game theory and algorithmic mechanism design, bringing economic incentives into the design of computations. He co-authored the field's defining textbook. He received the Gödel Prize in 2012 and the Knuth Prize in 2016.
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Israeli pioneer of algorithmic game theory and complexity; Gödel Prize (2012), Knuth Prize (2016)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Knuth & Gödel Prizes
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