{"65541":{"#nid":"65541","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Vazirani Chosen as 2011 Guggenheim Fellow","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EVijay Vazirani has received a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship for research into algorithmic problems in economics and game theory.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe algorithmic way of thinking is one of the most profound contributions of modern computer science to the natural sciences and engineering\u2014it can lead to fresh, new insights and progress of a fundamental nature on some of their most basic questions,\u201d Vazirani said. \u201cThe reason is that many processes being studied in these fields are inherently computational in nature, whether it is a market converging to equilibrium prices or neural processes in the brain or protein production and folding in living cells.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/people\/vijay-vazirani\u0022 target=\u0022_self\u0022\u003EVazirani\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the School of Computer Science, will take a sabbatical during 2011-12 to work on his Guggenheim project, titled \u0022Algorithms as a Lens on Economics.\u0022 He has confirmed visits to Hebrew University, Stanford University, University of Chicago and CalTech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gf.org\/about-the-foundation\/the-fellowship\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGuggenheim Fellowships\u003C\/a\u003E, awarded by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and its Board of Trustees, are given to researchers who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. The purpose of the Guggenheim Fellowship program is to provide fellows with blocks of time in which they can work with as much creative freedom as possible. Out of 3,000 applicants in 2011, just 180 fellows were chosen, and only two fellowships were given to computer scientists.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EVijay Vazirani (\u003Cem\u003EComputer Science\u003C\/em\u003E) has received a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship for research into algorithmic problems in economics and game theory. \u003Cem\u003ESource: Office of Communications\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27174","created_gmt":"2011-04-13 09:30:47","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:08:34","author":"Mike Terrazas","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-04-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-04-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"12780","name":"guggenheim fellowship"},{"id":"10717","name":"Vijay Vazirani"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}