Manuel Blum
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Manuel Blum (born 26 April 1938) is a Venezuelan born American computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1995 "In recognition of his contributions to the foundations of computational complexity theory and its application to cryptography and program checking".[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
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Born | (1938-04-26) 26 April 1938 (age 86) Caracas, Venezuela |
Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BA, MA, PhD) |
Known for | Blum complexity axioms Blum integer Blum's speedup theorem Blum Blum Shub Blum–Goldwasser cryptosystem Blum–Micali algorithm CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA Commitment scheme |
Spouse | Lenore Blum |
Awards | ACM's A.M. Turing Award, 1995 Distinguished Teaching Award, UC Berkeley, 1977 Sigma Xi's Monie A. Ferst Award, 1991 Herbert A.Simon Teaching award, 2007 |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer Science |
Institutions | University of California, Berkeley Carnegie Mellon University |
Thesis | A Machine-Independent Theory of the Complexity of Recursive Functions (1964) |
Doctoral advisor | Marvin Minsky[1] |
Doctoral students | Leonard Adleman Dana Angluin C. Eric Bach Shafi Goldwasser Mor Harchol-Balter Russell Impagliazzo Silvio Micali Gary Miller Moni Naor Ronitt Rubinfeld Steven Rudich Jeffrey Shallit Michael Sipser Umesh Vazirani Vijay Vazirani Luis von Ahn Ryan Williams[1] |
Website | www |
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