Spreading the Gospel of Theoretical Computer Science to an Omega(1) Fraction of Humanity: My Trevisan Award Acceptance Speech at STOC

🫧 Open on Bubbles Take that, Shtetl-Optimized haters of the world! With longtime friend and colleague Salil Vadhan , as well as Luca Trevisan’s widower Junce Zhang, at the STOC banquet on Tuesday, before I was given half an hour to try to make people laugh Spreading the Gospel of Theoretical Computer Science to an Ω(1) Fraction of Humanity (Or, How We Can Do Like the Physicists) Scott Aaronson’s Trevisan Award Acceptance Speech Salt Lake City, Utah, June 23, 2026 Thank you so much! It’s one of the highlight