Andrew Yao
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Andrew Chi-Chih Yao (}; }) (born December 24, 1946) is a prominent computer scientist.
He received the Turing Award, the most prestigious award in computer science, in 2000, "in recognition of his fundamental contributions to the theory of computation, including the complexity-based theory of pseudorandom number generation, cryptography, and communication complexity".
Yao used the minimax theorem to prove what we now call Yao's Principle.
Yao was born in Shanghai, China. He completed his undergraduate education in physics at the National Taiwan University, before completing a Ph.D. in physics at Harvard University in 1972, and then a second PhD in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
He had been a Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University, where he continues to work on algorithms and complexity. In 2004, he became a Professor of the Center for Advanced Study, at Qinghua University, Beijing, China.
He is a member of US National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a foreign member of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
External links
- [Andrew Yao's Home Page in Qinghua University]
- [Andrew Yao's Princeton Home Page - has a miniature biography and CV]
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