Lance Fortnow

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Lance Fortnow


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August 15, 1963

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``I'm on vacation so I won't be checking email'' will sound funny soon. Maybe it already does.

 "I'll be on vacation so I won't be checking email.''

"I can't be at the meeting since I will be out of town''

Technology has made it so that:

a) You really CAN get email when you are on vacation.

b) You really CAN go to a meeting if you are out of town (if the meeting is on Zoom which is becoming more and more common).  (My proofreader tells me that Zoom is spelled with a capital Z.  I did not know t

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Published on September 15, 2025 09:05
Average rating: 3.59 · 501 ratings · 65 reviews · 2 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Golden Ticket: P, NP, a...

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可能与不可能的边界:PNP问题趣史(图灵图书)

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“Suppose whatever we can recognize we can find. We can if P=NP.”
Lance Fortnow, The Golden Ticket: P, NP, and the Search for the Impossible

“Diffie and Hellman suggested such a system, but their protocol is not as commonly used as a scheme discovered by three computer scientists, Ronald Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman, in 1978 and named “RSA” after them.”
Lance Fortnow, The Golden Ticket: P, NP, and the Search for the Impossible



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