Background
Fortnow, Lance Jeremy was born on August 15, 1963 in New York City. Son of Stanley and Linda Bartels.
university professor computer scientist
Fortnow, Lance Jeremy was born on August 15, 1963 in New York City. Son of Stanley and Linda Bartels.
Bachelor, Cornell University, 1985. Doctor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999.
He currently chairs the School of Computer Science at Georgia Technology Lance Fortnow received a doctorate in Applied Mathematics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989, supervised by Michael Sipser. Since graduation, he"s served on the faculty of the University of Chicago (1989-1999, 2003-2007), Northwestern University (2008-2012), and most recently the Georgia Institute of Technology (2012–present) as chair of the School of Computer Science.
Fortnow was the founding editor-in-chief of the journal Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Transactions on Computation Theory.
He was the chair of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGACT and succeeded by Paul Beame. He was the chair of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Conference on Computational Complexity from 2000 to 2006.
In 2003, Fortnow began one of the first blogs devoted to theoretical computer science and has written for it since then Since 2007 he has had a co-blogger, William Gasarch.
In September 2009, Fortnow brought mainstream attention to complexity theory when he published an article surveying the progress made in the P versus Natural Philosophy problem in the Communications of the Association of Computing Machinery.
2007 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow.
Married Marcy Appell Fortnow, September 2, 1990. Children: Annie, Molly.