Again in the 1990s, a bunch of really smart people were exploring the notion of randomized algorithms as a reasonable approach to solving problems.

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He has co-authored two textbooks on randomized algorithms and information retrieval.

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And then this guy named Rajeev Motwani and others started to push the use of randomized algorithms, not as a weird corner case, but the way to do algorithms.

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