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Bernard Chazelle

Eugene Higgins Professor of Computer Science
Princeton University

Professeur, Chaire d’Informatique, Collège de France


Unlike music, scientific work does not come with liner notes. Perhaps it should. I work in Algorithms, a field believed by some to hold the promise of a scientific revolution. If you are a believer, no need to click here. My current interests are in Natural Algorithms, with a focus on collective behavior, influence systems, and bird flocking. If you want to become an expert, there are worse ways to get started than here.

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I used to blog at A Tiny Revolution about politics and music. If you've wondered why the world has become so just, prosperous, and peaceful, that's because I've written essays to explain:

  • Why torture is wrong and why humor is no laughing matter.
  • Why the American left needs a new creed. See also here and here.
  • Why the American Century will end in Iraq.
  • Why the French riots were salutary and why the US media gets France all wrong.
  • Why the children in Iraq make no sound when they fall.
  • Why anti-Americanism is not what you think and why Bush was, well, you know what he was.

My Erdős-Bacon number is 5 = 2 + 3. Now you know why Cambridge University Press made me sign away the movie rights to my book, The Discrepancy Method. My Inaugural Lecture at the Collège de France: