Jesse Goodman

Congratulations to Eshan Chattopadhyay and David Zuckerman, winners of the 2025 Gödel Prize for “Explicit two-source extractors and resilient functions”, STOC 2016 and Annals of Mathematics 2019 sigact.org/prizes/g%C3%B6…

🏆 Avi Wigderson, Herbert H. Maass Professor in the IAS School of Mathematics, has been named by @TheOfficialACM as the recipient of the 2023 ACM A.M. Turing Award, often referred to as the “Nobel Prize of Computing." Read more: ias.edu/news/avi-wigde…

Congratulations to Eshan Chattopadhyay on receiving the 2024 @theNASciences Michael and Sheila Held Prize, along with collaborator David Zuckerman from University of Texas at Austin. 🎉 The pair was selected for their novel work on randomized algorithms. cis.cornell.edu/chattopadhyay-…

Avi Wigderson, 2021 Abel prize laureate, has made many seminal contributions to theoretical computer science and mathematics. With Yael Kalai, Ran Raz, Salil Vadhan & @NisheethVishnoi , we wrote an overview of his works arxiv.org/abs/2307.09524

Éva Tardos, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Science & department chair, has been awarded the Donald E. Knuth Prize, which recognizes visionaries in computer science whose work has had foundational, long-term impact. @CornellCIS Read more: bit.ly/3NL6AK4

Exciting breakthrough by Xin Li on the entropy requirement for many deterministic extractors! :)