Wednesday, 27 February 2013

Computer scientist wins Canada's top science prize


A Toronto researcher who has dedicated his career to proving whether certain types of problems are solvable by computers has won this year's Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering, which comes with $1 million in research funding.

Canada's top annual science prize has gone to Stephen A. Cook, a researcher in the department of computer science at the University of Toronto.



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