About the Authors
Scott Aaronson
Scott Aaronson
associate professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
aaronson[ta]csail[td]mit[td]edu
http://www.scottaaronson.com
Scott Aaronson received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, under the supervision of Umesh Vazirani. After postdocs at the University of Waterloo and the Institute for Advanced Study, he joined the faculty at MIT. He writes the blog Shtetl-Optimized.
Dieter van Melkebeek
Dieter van Melkebeek
associate professor
Department of Computer Sciences
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
dieter[ta]cs[td]wisc[td]edu
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~dieter
Dieter van Melkebeek received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, under the supervision of Lance Fortnow. His thesis was awarded the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. After postdocs at DIMACS and the Institute for Advanced Study, he joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.