Biography
Michael Oser Rabin ( Hebrew : מִיכָאֵל עוזר רַבִּין ; born September 1, 1931) is an Israeli mathematician , computer scientist , and recipient with Dana Scott of the 1976 ACM Turing Award for their work on computational complexity. Rabin was born in 1931 in Breslau , Germany (today Wrocław , in Poland ), the son of a rabbi . In 1935, he emigrated with his family to Mandatory Palestine . As a young boy, he was very interested in mathematics and his father sent him to the best high school in Haifa , where he studied under mathematician Elisha Netanyahu , who was then a high school teacher. [ 1 ] Rabin graduated from the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa in 1948, and was drafted into the army during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War . The mathematician Abraham Fraenkel , who was a professor of mathematics in Jerusalem , intervened with the army command, and Rabin was discharged to study at the university in 1949. [ 1 ] Afterwards, he received an M.Sc from Hebrew University of Jerusalem . He began graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania before receiving a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1956. [ 2 ] Fields: Computer science Education: Hebrew University BS MS University of Pennsylvania Princeton University PhD Award Citation: .mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0} Weizmann Prize (1959) Turing Award (1976) Harvey Prize (1980) Gibbs lecture (1985) Israel Prize (1995) IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award (2000) Paris Kanellakis Award (2003) EMET Prize (2004) Gödel Lecture (2004) Dan David Prize (2010) Dijkstra Prize (2015)
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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Notable Winners
- Donald Knuth (1974)
- Tim Berners-Lee (2016)
- Geoffrey Hinton (2018)
- Yoshua Bengio (2018)
- Yann LeCun (2018)