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Turing Award to the Institute’s Prof. Shafi Goldwasser
Posted by Weizmann Science Writer on March 13, 2013
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Prof. Shafi Goldwasser, who is at both the Weizmann Institute and MIT, will receive the 2012 A.M. Turing Award, together with Prof. Silvio Micali of MIT. Goldwasser is only the third woman to receive the Award since its inception in 1966, and she is the third faculty member of the Weizmann Institute to receive what…
Congrats to Fundamental Physics Prize Winners
Posted by Weizmann Science Writer on August 1, 2012 Science magazine seemed to imply there was some grousing about the new Fundamental Physics Prizes awarded by billionaire Yuri Milner, but we in Rehovot think it’s a good thing. While one can quibble about which fields are still underfunded, we believe that any support for truly basic research — the kind whose applications, if they…