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Uncommon card · Science
Silvio Micali, an Uncommon card
Silvio Micali is an Italian computer scientist, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the founder of Algorand, a proof-of-stake blockchain cryptocurrency protocol.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 57
- DEF
- 39
- Power
- 96
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 15,000
Power 96 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
Silvio Micali quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Silvio Micali card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
In 2012, he and Shafi Goldwasser received the Turing Award for their work on ______.
Answer
cryptography. In 2012, he and Shafi Goldwasser received the Turing Award for their work on cryptography. From the Silvio Micali article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Louis Bachelier. Louis Bachelier 66 · Bi-elliptic transfer 60 · Silvio Micali 57 · Regimental Military Intelligence Battalion 54 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Louis Bachelier. Louis Bachelier 20,000 · Silvio Micali 15,000 · Algebraic combinatorics 11,000 · Percy Ernst Schramm 6,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Micali's research at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory centers on cryptography and information security.
- In 2012, he and Shafi Goldwasser received the Turing Award for their work on cryptography.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Silvio Micali article was read about 15,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 57 and blocks with 39: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.
How to get Silvio Micali
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Silvio Micali (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Rguillou228, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
