4 Quotes & Sayings By Chenning Yang

Chen-Ning Yang is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and an ACM Fellow. His research interests are in computational complexity theory, computational geometry, algorithmics, graph algorithms, computational physics, and machine learning. He has published over sixty papers in top-tier journals such as ACM Transactions on Computation Theory (TOPLAS), SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (SISC), SIAM Review (SR), Journal of the ACM (JACM), Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics (CPAM), AIAA Journal (AIAA), Proceedings of the IEEE (PRI), Communications of the ACM (CACM) and Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP). He was an Associate Editor for JACM from 2005 to 2014 Read more

He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University in 1986 under the supervision of Daniel F. Bobrow, James N.

Atchley and David S. Touretzky; he spent two years as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Berkeley before joining the faculty of UC Berkeley in 1988.

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The existence of symmetry laws is in full accordance with our daily experience. The simplest of these symmetries, the isotropy and homogeneity of space, are concepts that date back to the early history of human thought. ChenNing Yang
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Science has become something that everybody knows he has to pay attention to, but not everybody is a believer. So I don't think we should equate science with religion. But, that science is progressively playing a more and more important part in the life of every individual is obvious. ChenNing Yang
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In the final analysis, the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within. ChenNing Yang