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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
Birth Date
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. Gregory Chaitin (Wikidata)
  • Wikidata alias: Gregory J. Chaitin
    Gregory J. Chaitin
  • Wikidata alias: Chaitin
    Chaitin
  • Wikidata alias: Gregory John Chaitin
    Gregory John Chaitin
  • P569 (date of birth): year 1947
    1947
  • P569 (date of birth): 1947-11-15
    1947-11-15
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