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Umesh Vazirani

Also Known As Umesh Virkumar Vazirani · Umesh V. Vazirani
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Umesh Vazirani is an Indian-American computer scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, and one of the founders of quantum computational complexity theory. With Ethan Bernstein he formally defined the quantum Turing machine in the early 1990s, work that helped establish the theoretical foundations later used to analyze what quantum computers can and cannot do efficiently.

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Umesh Virkumar Vazirani is an Indian-American academic who is the Roger A. Strauch Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Umesh Vazirani (Wikidata)
  • Wikidata alias: Umesh Virkumar Vazirani
    Umesh Virkumar Vazirani
  • Wikidata P166: Fulkerson Prize
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Fulkerson Prize.
  • Wikidata P166: ACM Fellow
    Wikidata P166 (award received): ACM Fellow.
  • Wikidata alias: Umesh V. Vazirani
    Umesh V. Vazirani
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