Lance Fortnow

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Lance Fortnow is an American theoretical computer scientist known for his contributions to computational complexity theory and for his expository work on the P vs NP problem.

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instanceOf American academic
computer scientist
person
theoretical computer scientist
almaMater Cornell University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
award Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
surface form: ACM Fellow
blogTopic computational complexity theory
theoretical computer science
citizenship United States of America
surface form: United States
coauthor Bill Gasarch
degree Bachelor's degree from Cornell University
PhD in computer science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
doctoralAdvisor Michael Sipser
editorialRole editor-in-chief of the ACM Transactions on Computation Theory
former editor of the Complexity Theory Column of SIGACT News
employer Georgia Institute of Technology
Illinois Institute of Technology
field computational complexity theory
theoretical computer science
genre popular science writing
hasBlog Computational Complexity blog
knownFor computational complexity theory
expository work on the P versus NP problem
popularizing the P versus NP problem
research on interactive proof systems
research on relativization in complexity theory
language English
nationality United States of America
surface form: United States
notableConcept relativization barriers in complexity theory
notableWork The Golden Ticket: P, NP, and the Search for the Impossible
occupation author
department chair
professor
position Dean of the College of Computing at Illinois Institute of Technology
Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology
professionalMembership Association for Computing Machinery
IEEE Computer Society
researchArea P versus NP problem
complexity theory and randomness
interactive proofs
relativization
teachingArea computational complexity
theory of computation
writesAbout implications of P versus NP for society
limits of efficient computation

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