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Madhu Sudan Receives Nevanlinna Prize
| The Nevanlinna Prize is awarded every four years by the International Congress of Mathematicians (since 1982), to young researchers who have made outstanding contributions in mathematical aspects of information science. The 2002 Nevanlinna Prize has been awarded to Dr. Madhu Sudan, from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, MIT, USA, for his work in the areas of probabilistically checkable proofs PCPs, non-approximibility of optimization problems, and error-correcting codes. In this article, we describe these areas and Madhu Sudan’s important contributions. |
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