!!Leslie Valiant - Curriculum Vitae
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__Education:__
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*1967 - 1970 B.A. in Mathematics, King's College, Cambridge\\
*1970 - 1971 Diploma in Computing Science, Imperial College, London\\
*1971 - 1973 Ph.D. (1974) in Computer Science, Warwick University.  Advisor: Michael Paterson
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__Employment:__
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*Visiting Assistant Professor at Carnegie-Mellon University (1973 - 1974)  \\
*Lecturer at Leeds University (1974 - 1976)\\
*Lecturer, Reader at Edinburgh University (1977 - 1982)\\
*Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Harvard University (1982 - 2001)\\
*Visiting Research Fellow at Merton College and Computing Laboratory, Oxford University (1987 - 1988)\\
*T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor, Harvard University (2001 - present)
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__Awards:__
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*1985 - 1986 Guggenheim Fellowship\\
*1986 Nevanlinna Prize (International Mathematical Union)\\
*1997 Knuth Prize\\
*2008 EATCS Award (European Association for Theoretical Computer Science)\\
*2010 Turing Award
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__Professional Societies:__
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*1991 Fellow of the Royal Society\\
*1992 Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence\\
*2001 Member of the National Academy of Sciences\\
*2008 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science\\
*2013 Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
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__Honorary Degrees:__
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*2012  Ecole Normale Superieure, Lyon, Docteur honoris causa\\
*2013  University of Warwick, Hon DSc (Honorary Doctor of Science)\\
*2013  University of Waterloo, DMath (Doctor of Mathematics honoris causa)\\
*2018  University of Leeds, Doctor of Science (Engineering), honoris causa
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__Honorary Appointments:__
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*2013 - Honorary Fellow, King's College, Cambridge\\
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__Books:__\\
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Circuits of the Mind. Oxford University Press, New York, 1994. \\Paperback edition with new preface: 2000. Japanese translation: 1997.\\
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Probably Approximately Correct: Nature's Algorithms for Learning and Prospering in a Complex World. \\Basic Books, New York, 2013.\\
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Three US patents on parallel computing.\\
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About 100 scientific publications.  More information including a full cv is available at [https://people.seas.harvard.edu/~valiant]\\ \\