Lance Fortnow | |
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| Born | August 15, 1963 (age 61) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Cornell University Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Interactive proofs |
| Awards | ACM Fellow, NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow, Fulbright Scholar, Nerode Prize |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | Illinois Institute of Technology Georgia Tech Northwestern University University of Chicago |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael Sipser |
| Doctoral students | Carsten Lund |
| Website | http://lance.fortnow.com/ http://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/ |
Lance Jeremy Fortnow (born August 15, 1963) is a computer scientist known for major results in computational complexity and interactive proof systems. He is the Dean of the College of Computing at the Illinois Institute of Technology.