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Shafi Goldwasser

Shafi Goldwasser

💻 Turing Award Winner

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Biography

Shafrira Goldwasser ( Hebrew : שפרירה גולדווסר ; born 1959 [ 5 ] ) is an Israeli-American computer scientist. She is the RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , [ 6 ] a professor of mathematical sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science , the former director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing , and co-founder and chief scientist of Duality Technologies. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] In 2012, she and Silvio Micali won the ACM Turing Award . Goldwasser was born in New York City and grew up in Tel Aviv. [ 5 ] She later returned to the US and obtained her bachelor's degree in 1979 in mathematics and science from Carnegie Mellon . She received a master's degree in 1981 and PhD in 1984 from Berkeley advised by Manuel Blum . [ 3 ] While at Berkeley, Goldwasser worked on cryptography and algorithmic number theory. [ 12 ] She and Blum proposed the Blum-Goldwasser cryptosystem . [ 3 ] Along with Silvio Micali , also a student at Berkeley at the time, she introduced the notion of probabilistic encryption where one message can be encrypted probabilistically to many different ciphertexts, which is more resistant to chosen-plaintext attacks . [ 12 ] Fields: Computer science, cryptography Education: Carnegie Mellon University BS University of California, Berkeley MS PhD Award Citation: Grace Murray Hopper Award (1996) Gödel Prize (1993, 2001) Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2004) IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (2011) BBVA Award (2018) RSA Mathematics Award (1998) Loreal Unesco Women in Science Award (2021) Turing Award (2012) [ 1 ] Suffrage Science award (2016) [ 2 ] ACM Fellow (2017) AAAS Fellow (2000)

About the Turing Award

The ACM A.M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science. It is generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science and is colloquially known as the "Nobel Prize of Computing."

Quick Facts

  • Award: ACM A.M. Turing Award
  • Added: 2026-02-07
  • Source: Wikipedia
  • Prize: $1,000,000 (USD)
  • Presented by: ACM

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