Paul Vitanyi#
| Membership Number: | 3009 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2011 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.cwi.nl/~paulv |
Present and Previous Positions
- CWI Fellow (since 2003)
- Since 1988 Professor of Computer Science at the University of Amsterdam
- 2005 Adjunct Professor Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- 2005 Appointed Hoogleraar 1 (highest professor rank) at the University of Amsterdam
Fields of Scholarship
- Kolmogorov complexity
- Computational machine learning
- Computational complexity
- Distributed computing
- Information theory
Honours and Awards
- 2007 International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Silver Core Award
- 2007 Knighthood (Ridder in de Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw)
- 2003 Kolmogorov Medal - given to invited speakers at the "Kolmogorov and Contemporary Mathematics" Centennial Congress in Moscow
- 2003 Medal of the University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- 1999 People Republic of China's 1999 National 1st Prize for Excellent Books in Science and Technology published in the Peoples Republic of China (jointly with Ming Li)
- Initially Member of the Information and Communication Panel of the Scientific Councel of the European Research Councel (ERC) until resignation
- 2005-2007 Goedel Prize Committee
