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MIT Professor Constantinos Daskalakis has been awarded the 2018 Grace Murray Hopper Award of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), which he will receive at a ceremony in San Francisco on June 15, it was announced on Wednesday.
He will share this award with Michael J. Freedman, professor of Princeton University’s Computer Science Department.
ACM announced that the winners were selected by their colleagues on the basis of their contribution to research in information and computer technologies. The prize is sponsored by Microsoft and is awarded to new computer scientists who have made recent significant contributions.
He is being honored for his significant contributions to Calculation Theory and Economics, in particular to the Computational Complexity of Nash Equilibria.
His further research has influenced the ongoing formulation of the study of strategic behavior, particularly with regard to various applications in the economy, and Daskalakis has been honored, among others, with the Nevanlinna Prize and the Simons Foundation Investigator Award, both in 2018.
Source: ANA-MPA
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