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1) Congratulations to Scott Aaronson for winning the first Trevisan Award.The Trevisan Award is in memory of Luca Trevisan and recognizes expository work in TCS. It is given out by the ACM. The ACM announcement of Scott's award is here. Scott blogged about winning it here.2) When preparing this blog post, I googled Trevisan Award. The first hit I got was this. That site says the award was for significant research. Hmmm. My first thought was Scott has, in fact, done significant research. Perhaps I misunderstood the award. I shared these thoughts with Lance who pointed out I was at the wrong website:Scott won the Trevisan AWARD.There is also a Trevisan PRIZE. This was the first hit I got when I googled Trevisan Award. There is not yet a Trevisan MEDAL. Give it time. 4) I then realized I did not actually know the difference between an award, a prize, and a medal.a) What are all the ways to honor someone in academia?b) How do they differ?5) I asked our future AI overlords:In academia…

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