Category Archives: Prize

A Breakthrough Donation for Computer Science

Posted on November 20, 2014 by sflammia

Lance Fortnow has a post summarizing some of the news affecting the CS community over the past month, including updates on various prizes as well as the significant media attention focusing on physics- and math-related topics such as movies about Turing and … Continue reading →

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Cirac and Zoller win the Wolf Prize for physics

Posted on January 2, 2013 by sflammia

Ignacio Cirac and Peter Zoller were just announced as winners of the 2013 Wolf Prize for physics. I’m not sure if this is the official citation, but the Jerusalem Post is saying the prize is: for groundbreaking theoretical contributions to quantum … Continue reading →

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