Leslie Valiant
British computer scientist
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Leslie Gabriel Valiant FRS is a British American computer scientist and computational theorist. He was born to a chemical engineer father and a translator mother. He is currently the T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Computer Science and Applied... Wikipedia
Place of birth: Budapest, Hungary
Awards: IMU Abacus Medal, Turing Award, Knuth Prize, and more
Education: University of Warwick (1974), Imperial College London, University of Cambridge, and more
Doctoral students: Mark Jerrum; Michael Kearns; Dan Roth;
Known for: Valiant–Vazirani theorem; Counting problem; Probably approximately correct learning
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