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Lance Fortnow


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The Most Common Name in the World is Not Charles Lin. But It Seems That Way To Me.


In 2001 I supervised Charles Lin's Master's Thesis, which was on Private Information Retrieval.

In 2025 I supervised Charles Lin's Master's Thesis, which was on Ramsey Theory.

These are different people. To celebrate the second one's thesis, I took them both out to lunch together. 

A Picture of Charles, Charles, and Bill is here.

I asked ChatGPT about common names.

1) ChatGPT tells me (and I believ

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Published on October 12, 2025 18:05
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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