Background
Vitanyi was born in Budapest from a Dutch mother and a Hungarian father.
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Paul Vitanyi
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He received his degree of mathematical engineer from Delft University of Technology in 1971 and his Doctor of Philosophy from the Free University of Amsterdam in 1978.
Career
Vitanyi was appointed Professor of Computer Science at the University of Amsterdam, and worked as researcher at the Dutch Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica. Vitanyi has served on the editorial boards of Distributed Computing (1987–2003), Information Processing Letters. The Theory of Computing Systems.
The Parallel Processing Letters.
The International journal of Foundations of Computer Science. The Entropy; the Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences (guest editor), and elsewhere.
Membership
He received a knighthood in the Order of the Netherlands Lion, and is a member of the Academia Europaea.
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Netherlands