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Gregory Chaitin

Also Known As Gregory J. Chaitin · Chaitin · Gregory John Chaitin
Theory of Computation

Gregory John Chaitin (born June 25, 1947) is an Argentine American mathematician and computer scientist. His work was foundational to the development of algorithmic information theory and has been influential on metamathematics. He independently discovered what is today known as algorithmic, or Kolmogorov, or Solomonoff-Kolmogorov-Chaitin, complexity, simultaneously with Andrei Kolmogorov and Ray Solomonoff.

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1947 1
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1947-11-15 1
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Gregory Chaitin devised the graph-coloring approach to register allocation described in his 1981 paper.

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1. Wikidata: Gregory Chaitin
Wikidata Q930837, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
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