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The Power and Weakness of Randomness (When You are Short on Time)
2011-11-10
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Wigderson, Avi
Man has grappled with the meaning and utility of randomness for centuries. Research in the
Theory of Computation in the last thirty years has enriched this study considerably. I will
describe two main aspects of this research on randomness, demonstrating respectively its
power and weakness for making algorithms faster. I will address the role of randomness in
other computational settings, such as space bounded computation and probabilistic and
zero-knowledge proofs.