The article seems to be an overview of the person, rather than anything detailed about a specific paper he wrote. Apparently he received an award recently?
Yes, it's a bio associated with the award announcement.
Sort of like one of those personal sketches that are so popular in US Olympic coverage....
There's a place for this, though it helps to know what you're reading, and the article title is misleading in that regard --- this is about the award and winner, not the subject matter on which the award was based.
Maybe I'm mistaken but it seems to me that some of his work on communication is relevant for the development of attack-resilient decentralized networks with potentially adversarial nodes. A lot of these are under development.
"A scientist" is Mark Braverman, a Princeton University computer scientist. He's won the 2022 IMU Medal for work in information and complexity theory.
I've suggested an alternate title (submission is "A scientist who developed a new way to understand communication") to the HN mods which manages to capture more of that.
(Future search on "Mark Braverman" would be more productive than "a scientist", among other justifications for the change. At least this content will trip on most of that.)
This looks like it might be the paper the article mentions, though: https://mbraverm.princeton.edu/files/ICM2022-Braverman.pdf
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