Lance Fortnow | |
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Born | August 15, 1963 | (age 61)
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Cornell University Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Known for | Interactive proofs |
Awards | ACM Fellow, NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow, Fulbright Scholar, Nerode Prize |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer science |
Institutions | Illinois Institute of Technology Georgia Tech Northwestern University University of Chicago |
Doctoral advisor | Michael Sipser |
Doctoral students | Carsten Lund |
Website | http://lance.fortnow.com/ http://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/ |
Lance Jeremy Fortnow (born August 15, 1963) is a computer scientist known for major results in computational complexity and interactive proof systems. He is the Dean of the College of Computing at the Illinois Institute of Technology.