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Michael Saks

American mathematician
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18 properties
Instance of
human
Sex or gender
male[12]
Date of birth
April 1956
Country of citizenship
United States[5]
Occupation
mathematician, university teacher, computer scientist
Employer
Rutgers University[6]
Educated at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology[7]
Award received
Gödel Prize, ACM Fellow[9][10]
Birth date
1956-04-00
Citizenship
United States
Doctoral advisor
Daniel J. Kleitman[8]
Doctoral student
Andres Fundia, Clifford Dieter Smyth, Shiyu Zhou, Srikrishnan Divakaran, Xiaodong Sun, Nikos Leonardos[13][14][15][16][17][18]
Erdős number
1
Given name
Michael
Library of congress authority id
n86805553
Maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Mathematics
Member of
Association for Computing Machinery (2016–present)[11]
Viaf id
58109195
🏷️ Also known as
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🔖 Identifiers · 12
ISNI
0000000027270132
ORCID iD
0000-0003-1659-7190
VIAF cluster ID
58109195
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n86805553
ACM Digital Library author ID
81100032709
DBLP author ID
s/MichaelESaks
Freebase ID
/m/09gnkj7
Google Scholar author ID
mu2I688AAAAJ
MR Author ID
153245
Mathematics Genealogy Project ID
6186
WorldCat Entities ID
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ZbMATH author ID
saks.michael-e

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Occupation 3
mathematician, computer scientist, university teacher
Award received 2
Gödel Prize, ACM Fellow
Affiliated with 1
Rutgers University
Author of 1
Approximating Edit Distance within Constant Factor in Truly Sub-Quadratic Time
Country of citizenship 1
United States
Doctoral advisor 1
Daniel J. Kleitman
Doctoral advisors 1
Daniel J. Kleitman
Educated at 1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Employer 1
Rutgers University
Given name 1
Michael
Instance of 1
human
Maintained by WikiProject 1
WikiProject Mathematics
Member of 1
Association for Computing Machinery
Sex or gender 1
male
← Authored by 1
Approximating Edit Distance within Constant Factor in Truly Sub-Quadratic Time
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Summary

Michael Saks was born in April 1956[1]. He worked as a mathematician[2], university teacher[3], and computer scientist[4].

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Recognition

Awards received include Gödel Prize[9], a science award[19], founded in 1992[20] and ACM Fellow[10], a fellowship award[21].

FAQs

What did Michael Saks do for work?

Michael Saks worked as mathematician[2], university teacher[3], and computer scientist[4].

Where did Michael Saks go to school?

Michael Saks was educated at Massachusetts Institute of Technology[7].

What awards did Michael Saks receive?

Honors received include Gödel Prize[9] and ACM Fellow[10].

Related Entities

computer scientist Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States

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  8. [9] ↑ . sigact.org. sigact.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . awards.acm.org. Retrieved . awards.acm.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [8] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  17. [11] ↑ . acm.org. Retrieved . acm.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [1] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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  1. [19] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [21] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

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