Yale Professor wins Godel Prize for showing how computer algorithms solve problems
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 - 07:56
in Mathematics & Economics
Daniel A. Spielman, professor of applied mathematics and computer science at Yale, has been awarded the prestigious Gödel Prize for developing a technique, known as Smoothed Analysis, that helps predict the success of problem-solving with real data and computers. He shared the prize with Shang-Hua Teng, professor of computer science at Boston University.