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		gaws on April 11, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 2023 ACM Turing Prize awarded to Avi Wigderson > Correction: April 10, 2024 > The original version of this article said Wigderson attended the University of Haifa. He actually graduated from the Technion, in Haifa, Israel. How did the reporter mess that up?

chaosite on April 11, 2024 [–]

Haifa is the only city in Israel to have two public universities (excluding branches of the Open University.)

I can see the reporter reading that he attended university in Haifa and misconstruing that to mean the University of Haifa...

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