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Shafrira Goldwasser

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American computer scientist

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Shafrira Goldwasser is an Israeli-American computer scientist. She is the RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a professor of mathematical sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science, the former director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of...

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Algorithms govern our computing-based world in the same way that the laws of nature govern the physical one.

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Their mathematical underpinnings are thus as important to modern society.

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As the periodic table, relativity or the genome.

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2023Harold Pender Award
2021L'Oréal-UNESCO Award For Women in Science
2017BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
2017ACM Fellow
2012Turing Award
2011IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award
2010Benjamin Franklin Medal
2008Athena Lecturer
2007IACR Fellow
2001Gödel Prize
1996Grace Murray Hopper Award
1993Gödel Prize

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Shafrira Goldwasser is an Israeli-American computer scientist. She is the RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 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. In 2012, she and Silvio Micali won the ACM Turing Award.

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Born 1958 · age 67
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