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Avrim Blum

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Nationality
  
American

Role
  
Computer scientist

Doctoral advisor
  
Fields
  
Computer Science


Known for
  
Parents
  
Lenore Blum, Manuel Blum

Name
  
Avrim Blum

Notable students
  
Avrim Blum wwwcscmueduavrimmegif

Born
  
May 27, 1966 (age 57) Berkeley, California, USA (
1966-05-27
)

Doctoral students
  
Prasad ChalasaniSantosh VempalaCarl BurchAdam Tauman KalaiJohn LangfordNikhil BansalMartin ZinkevichShuchi ChawlaBrendan McMahanNina BalcanShobha VenkataramanMugizi RwebangiraKatrina LigettAaron Roth

Education
  
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Residence
  
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Similar People
  
Santosh Vempala, Manuel Blum, Tom M Mitchell, Lenore Blum, John Langford

Avrim blum harnessing implicit assumptions in problem formulations


Avrim Blum (born 27 May 1966) is a prominent computer scientist. In 2007, he was made a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to learning theory and algorithms." Blum attended MIT, where he received his Ph.D. in 1991 under professor Ron Rivest. Since 1991 he has been a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University.

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His main work has been in the area of theoretical computer science, with particular activity in the fields of machine learning, computational learning theory, algorithmic game theory, and algorithms.

Avrim is the son of two other well-known computer scientists, Manuel Blum and Lenore Blum.

Avrim blum on line learning and game theory part ii


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