Miklós Ajtai

Miklos Ajtai
Born (1946-07-02) 2 July 1946
NationalityHungarian-American
Alma materHungarian Academy of Sciences
AwardsKnuth Prize (2003)
Scientific career
FieldsComputational complexity theory
InstitutionsIBM Almaden Research Center

Miklós Ajtai (born 2 July 1946) is a computer scientist at the IBM Almaden Research Center, United States. In 2003, he received the Knuth Prize for his numerous contributions to the field, including a classic sorting network algorithm (developed jointly with J. Komlós and Endre Szemerédi), exponential lower bounds, superlinear time-space tradeoffs for branching programs, and other "unique and spectacular" results. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.