Randomness and Computation

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"Randomness and Computation" is Shafi Goldwasser's influential doctoral thesis that helped lay the foundations of modern complexity theory and cryptography by rigorously exploring the role of randomness in efficient computation.

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instanceOf academic dissertation
doctoral thesis
academicAdvisor Manuel Blum
Silvio Micali
academicDiscipline computer science
author Shafi Goldwasser
citedAs foundational work in complexity theory
foundational work in cryptography
contributedTo foundations of modern complexity theory
foundations of modern cryptography
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
field computational complexity theory
cryptography
theoretical computer science
focusesOn role of randomness in efficient computation
security definitions based on probabilistic computation
use of randomness in algorithm design
genre scientific thesis
hasAuthorDissertation Shafi Goldwasser doctoral work
influenced design of cryptographic protocols
formalization of zero-knowledge
study of randomized complexity classes
theory of probabilistic polynomial-time computation
institution Massachusetts Institute of Technology
language English
topic complexity classes involving randomness
interactive proofs
probabilistic algorithms
randomness in computation
zero-knowledge proofs

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Shafi Goldwasser thesisTitle Randomness and Computation
Avi Wigderson notableWork Randomness and Computation