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            <td>[SPAM] Shafi Goldwasser appointed Director of the Simons
              Institute for the Theory of Computing</td>
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            <th nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT">Date: </th>
            <td>Tue, 10 Oct 2017 12:01:46 +0000</td>
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            <td>Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing
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            <td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:avi@ias.edu">avi@ias.edu</a></td>
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                                Award-winning computer scientist Shafi
                                Goldwasser will become the new Director
                                of the Simons Institute for the Theory
                                of Computing at the University of
                                California, Berkeley, on January 1,
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                                of outstanding young scholars, to
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