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THE ACM A. M. TURING AWARD

“Leslie Valiant’s research in the theory of computation has revolutionized both machine learning and artificial intelligence, making machines almost think. His approach invites comparison with Alan Turing himself—a novel formulation starting from a deep fundamental insight. Intel is pleased to support this year’s ACM Turing Award.”

Shekhar Borkar Intel Fellow, Microprocessor Technology Lab Intel Corporation

For more information see www.intel.com/research.

ACM, Intel and Google congratulate LESLIE G. VALIANT for transformative contributions to the theory of computation, including the theory of probably approximately correct (PAC) learning, the complexity of enumeration and of algebraic computation, and the theory of parallel and distributed computing.

“Google joins in honoring Leslie Valiant for his profound impact on computer science research and his inspired innovations in machine learning, an area of growing importance in computing. We are pleased to sponsor this award, which motivates and recognizes the great advances in computing that together have had such a beneficial impact on the world.”

Alfred Spector Vice President, Research and Special Initiatives Google Inc.

For more information, see http://www.google.com/corporate/ index.html and http://research.google.com/.